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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.
Yukio Ishiguro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 2 | October 1972 | Pages 228-232
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A35509
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper describes an analysis of the Doppler effect of structural materials, having a possibility of the importance in fast reactor safety. The shielding factors of the effective capture cross sections are prepared for chromium, iron, and nickel based on the nuclear data of ENDF/B-II. Using these shielding factors, the Doppler experiments for stainless steel and natural iron performed in the JAERI-FCA cores are analyzed by a simple perturbation method.The computed results are in fairly good agreement with the experiment although they are a little lower. It is suggested that the lower values might be attributed to the missing level of the sharp p- and d-wave resonances above 30 keV or to neglecting the contributions from the unresolved resonances.
