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How to talk about nuclear
In your career as a professional in the nuclear community, chances are you will, at some point, be asked (or volunteer) to talk to at least one layperson about the technology you know and love. You might even be asked to present to a whole group of nonnuclear folks, perhaps as a pitch to some company tangential to your company’s business. So, without further ado, let me give you some pointers on the best way to approach this important and surprisingly complicated task.
K. O. Ott, D. A. Meneley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 3 | June 1969 | Pages 402-411
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE36-402
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The quasistatic approach of treating the spatial dynamics problem is described as one method out of a full sequence of methods that factorize the flux into an amplitude and a shape function. The accuracy of these methods is investigated for a wide range of excursions in fast and thermal reactors by comparison with a full numerical solution. The quasistatic method describes even extreme excursions in fast reactors very accurately. Its application to thermal reactor excursions may, however, lead to appreciable errors. The “improved quasistatic” method reduces the errors for both types of reactors to negligible amounts so that its application to thermal reactors may be also considered.
