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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
A. J. Mill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 2 | October 1983 | Pages 127-132
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A27420
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Several filtered-beam facilities exist that provide monoenergetic neutrons at 186 eV; 2, 25, 55, and 144 keV; and at 2.2 MeV. This range of energies can be extended by using natural uranium as a filter in conjunction with suitable secondary filters and scattering foils. The range of energies obtainable with uranium lies between 100 eV and 2.5 keV. Neutron fluence rate and beam purity estimates are provided at the most useful energies obtainable with uranium. Dose equivalent rates and kerma rates are also evaluated, and it is concluded that such a range of filtered beams would have many useful applications in radiation protection.