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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.
R. J. Onega, P. W. Forbes, A. K. Furr, A. Robeson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 1 | April 1968 | Pages 49-55
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18823
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The kinetic equations for a heavy-water-moderated reactor have terms describing the production of neutrons in the photodisintegration of deuterons. A technique has been developed for the measurement of these short-lived delayed-photoneutron groups. A 235U target was placed in the center of a sphere of D2O and a chopped neutron beam from the VPI reactor was allowed to impinge on the target. The time for a revolution of the chopper varied from 86.4 to 0.463 sec in six steps and there are two pulses per revolution. The ratio of “beam-on” target time to “beam-off” target time is 1 to 16.5. During the beam-off time interval, the production rate of delayed neutron and delayed photoneutrons as a function of time was stored in a time base multichannel analyzer. The half-lives of two new delayed-photoneutron groups were determined to be 7.39 × 10−2 and 4.02 × 10−3 sec with relative abundances of 0.0292 and 0.170, respectively. The relative abundances represent the fractions of the delayed-neutron and delayed-photoneutron groups.
