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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. Lachkar, J. Sigaud, Y. Patin, G. Haouat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 2 | October 1974 | Pages 168-187
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A28205
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Differential production cross sections for gamma rays from the 56Fe(n,n’y) reactions are presented for incident-neutron energies between 2.5 and 14.1 MeV. The reactions are studied at 11 neutron energies using pulsed beam techniques with the D(d, n)3He reaction and associated particle method with the T(d,n)4He reaction as neutron sources and using a sample of natural iron. The excitation functions of 17 gamma-ray transitions were measured between 4.8- and 8.8-MeV incident energies in nine 0.5-MeV steps at an angle of 90 deg. Angular distributions of 13 prominent gamma rays were also measured at 8.8-MeV neutron energy and for the 846.8- and 1238.3-keV gamma rays at 2.5- and 14.1-MeV neutron energies.
