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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.
J. J. Van Binnebeek
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 1 | April 1969 | Pages 47-58
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A18856
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Two methods for evaluating the effects of nonuniformities in reactor fuel on resonance integrals are described. In the first method, the volume and the surface effects on the resonance integral are separated by dividing the rod into two homogenized regions and a general formalism is developed which is adequate for numerical computation. In the second method, which uses the moment technique of Cady and Clark, a generalization of the Nordheim equation, available for the study of any nonuniformity of the rod is presented. As an example, an analytical expression for a uniform temperature equivalent to a parabolic distribution is given.
