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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.
W. P. Poenitz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 4 | April 1974 | Pages 370-392
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23370
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Measurements of the dependence of the 235U fission cross section on neutron energy were carried out in the energy range from 35 keV to 3.5 MeV. Three different techniques were applied to monitor the neutron flux. The 6Li(n,α)T cross section was utilized in the lower energy range (<110 keV). The grey neutron detector was employed in the entire energy range, and the black neutron detector was used above 400 keV. The shapes were normalized with the results obtained from three different sets of absolute cross-section measurements. The associated activity technique was applied in the 450- to 650-keV range, the black neutron detector was used for absolute flux measurements at 800 keV and 3.5 MeV, and a calibrated vanadium bath was used at 500 keV. The results from the present measurements agree well with more recent data obtained by other experimenters but differ up to a factor of 2 from older values.