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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.
G. de Saussure, R. B. Perez
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 3 | November 1973 | Pages 382-395
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A19484
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For the specification of the cross sections of the fissile isotopes in the neu-tron energy region of unresolved resonances, the single-level formalism is often used, while an analysis of the cross sections in the resolved region indicates that a multilevel formula may be more appropriate. In this paper, we compare the statistical properties of the cross sections generated using the single-level formalism with those obtained by a multilevel formulation. The multilevel parameters were chosen to give the same average cross sections as the single-level formalism. The comparison indicates that there are small, but significant, differences between the statistical properties of the cross sections obtained with the multilevel formalism and those obtained with the single-level formula. The differences are probably too small, particularly when Doppler broadening is considered, to affect reactor calculations.
