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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.
Robert Conn, Mohamed Sawan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 3 | July 1972 | Pages 361-366
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22495
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The analysis of the slowing down of a neutron pulse leads to a detailed analogy between the decay of a pulse in the fast regime versus the decay in the thermal energy region. It is found that the slope, α, of log N(t) versus log(t) depends on the system buckling, B2. An “α versus B2” curve exists that is analogous to the “λ versus B2” curve for thermal systems. Other analogies between fast and thermal time decay are discussed. These analogies exist despite the fact that no time eigenvalue exists for this slowing down problem.
