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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.
J. C. Guyot, G. H. Miley, J. T. Verdeyen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 4 | August 1972 | Pages 373-386
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22505
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The transport of heavy charged particles produced by the 10B (n,α) nuclear reaction is predicted using a mean-range straight-flight model. The slowing down of these particles in a gas adjacent to the coating where they are born is described in terms of their flux energy spectrum, scalar flux, average energy, and energy-loss rate. These results are used in a plasma kinetics model which is compared to measurements of metastable excited state densities in helium and neon plasmas created by the heavy charged particles. The space-dependent fast primary electron (δ ray) energy spectrum produced by the heavy charged particles in helium is calculated, as well as the total number of fast primary electrons and their average kinetic energy.
