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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.
W. L. Hendry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 2 | November 1968 | Pages 134-147
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19539
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Approximate solutions to the one-velocity neutron transport equation for an infinite cylinder with isotropic scattering and spatially piecewise constant cross sections are obtained by Fourier expansion of the neutron distribution function in one of the angular variables. An infinite coupled set of equations for the expansion coefficients is derived and general properties of the solutions to the truncated set of equations are discussed. A scheme for solving these equations by Gauss quadratures is given, and, as an example, the solution to the bare infinite cylinder critical problem is given in three orders of approximation. Excellent accuracy is obtained with a fairly small investment of analytical effort. The extension of the method to include the effects of anisotropic scattering is sketched.