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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.
T. Yoshimura, S. Katsuragi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 297-302
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19237
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The eigensolutions of the multigroup neutron transport equation for the isotropic scattering medium in plane geometry are found by developing Case's method. The solution of the adjoint equation is also given in an explicit form. The completeness of the eigensolutions is proved by using the orthogonality relation to the adjoint solution. The degeneracy for the continuous eigenvalue is expressed in two ways: the unit vector system and the eigenvector system. In the latter case the orthogonality is formed, and the eigenvector system is thought of as a proper normal mode. As an application of this method, the infinite medium Green's function is constructed.
