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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.
Fuga Nishioka, Tomohiro Endo, Akio Yamamoto, Masao Yamanaka, Cheol Ho Pyeon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 133-143
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1968225
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To robustly estimate the fundamental mode component of prompt neutron decay constant α in a subcritical system, dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is applied to time-series data obtained by the pulsed-neutron source (PNS) and Rossi-α methods. For the statistical uncertainty quantification of α by DMD, randomly sampled virtual data are used for the DMD procedure. The applicability of DMD is demonstrated by analyzing the experimental results by the PNS and Rossi-α methods, which are performed at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA). When applying the DMD to the PNS and Rossi-α experimental data, a constant signal was added to the experimental data to remove the background constant component. The application results indicate that DMD enables one to robustly estimate the fundamental mode component of α in the PNS and Rossi-α methods.