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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.
S. Pahor, H. A. Larson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 4 | August 1972 | Pages 420-432
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22510
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The non-uniqueness of solutions of the nonlinear integral equations for the generalized Chandrasekhar′s function and H matrix for a homogeneous halfspace is discussed, and a new uniquely soluble equation for the H matrix is constructed. Then the complete solutions for the half-space albedo and Milne problems for thermal neutrons with the isotropic scattering degenerate kernel are derived. The solutions are expanded in terms of the infinite medium eigenfunctions and the expansion coefficients are determined from the corresponding emergent distributions, which have been discussed in an earlier paper and expressed in terms of the H matrix. In solving the albedo problem, the half-range completeness of the eigenfunctions is demonstrated and the corresponding halfrange closure relation is derived. At the end, numerical results for the heavy gas scattering model are presented.
