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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.
R. W. Stooksberry, J. H. Anderson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 51 | Number 2 | June 1973 | Pages 235-238
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A26597
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The total neutron cross sections of Zircaloy-2, zirconium-90, and carbon have been measured in the energy range 0.4 to 2.4 MeV, using the Bettis 3-MeV Van de Graaff pulsed-beam time-of-flight system in conjunction with a NE213 pulse-shape discrimination transmission detector for gamma-ray discrimination. Results obtained far Zircaloy-2 are significantly lower than prior evaluated data near 1 MeV. In addition, the zirconium-90 results average 6 to 7% below the Zircaloy-2 results.
