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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.
Hideo Hirayama, Takashi Nakamura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 3 | March 1973 | Pages 248-256
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A28978
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A new method of determining photon energy spectra has been developed with the activities induced by various photonuclear reactions. Test calculations by the orthonormal expansion method show that this method is applicable to the determination of the bremsstrahlung spectra above about 5 MeV when the activation rates and the cross-section data are given as error-free. The experiments were performed for iron and tungsten targets bombarded by 15-MeV electrons from a linear accelerator and the bremsstrahlung spectra obtained were in agreement with those of approximate calculation. This activation method has the advantage of being available for measuring the spectrum of a bremsstrahlung burst and being suitable for determining the distribution of the photon energy spectrum in the medium.
