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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.
Joel Adir and John R. Lamarsh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1969 | Pages 14-26
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21111
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new analytical method is presented for computing the thermal utilization of a noncylindrical unit cell containing a cylindrical fuel rod. No cylindrization of the cell is required. The boundary condition at the outer edge of the cell is formulated in terms of a procedure that minimizes the square of the neutron current at a number of unspecified points along the edge. This leads to rapid convergence in computations of the thermal utilization, even with tightly packed lattices for which previous methods may not converge. The method is used to derive specific formulas for the thermal utilization using diffusion theory; the method of Amouyal, Benoist, and Horowitz; and, finally, the PN method with anisotropic scattering. Sample computations using these models are also presented.
