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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.
R. L. Bramblett, J. B. Czirr
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 350-357
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20013
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A measurement has been made of the effects of flux depression upon the neutron-induced fission rate in 235U using self-detection techniques. A thin 235U fission detector was irradiated with neutrons from the LRL electron linear accelerator. The change in the fission counting rate was measured when absorber foils of 235U were inserted into the neutron beam. The detector consisted of a parallel-plate fission chamber containing eight 235U foils of thickness ½ mg/cm2 each. The incident neutron energies were measured by time-of-flight within the energy range from 0.46 eV to 2.1 keV and with a timing resolution of 27 nsec/m. The effect of this relatively poor resolution of the energy-averaged fission rate is eliminated by the self-detection technique. The enriched uranium absorber foils varied in thickness from 0.14 to 19 g/cm2, with a 235U content of 93%. In addition, 235U fission and total cross sections were measured with comparable resolution.