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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.
Christopher F. Masters, M. M. Thorpe, Darryl B. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 2 | May 1969 | Pages 202-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A19717
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A new method, utilizing a modulated neutron source operated in antisynchronism with a long counter, has been used to measure the absolute and relative delayed-neutron yields of five fissionable isotopes for neutron-induced fission at 3.1 and 14.9 MeV. The results, in units of delayed neutrons per fission, for 14.9-MeV fission are:
