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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.
William Bradley Lewis
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 3 | November 1971 | Pages 276-280
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A31007
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A model is fitted to experimental data by means of a normalizing factor, λ(x), over a range of material compositions, x0 < x < x1. The fitting involves certain modifications of data points. The total discrepancy of the modifications is expressed as δ(x). To an error no greater than δ(x), a model agrees with experiment. Fitting was made to two-group diffusion theory, but the method has general applicability.