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Weinberg and Wigner1 have made a plea for a more scholarly exposition of reactor technology ; Ghose and Young2 suggest that the proposed introduction of a unit of neutron flux be made an opportunity to make customary the use of the word ‘flux’ in this context. Their suggestion, however, involves an over-simplification, through neglecting to make allowance for the two concepts of neutron current and neutron flux, the importance of which I have emphasized elsewhere3.
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Weinberg, A. M., and Wigner, E. P., The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors (Univ. Chicago Press, 1958).
Ghose, S. C., and Young, J. C., Nature, 190, 621 (1961).
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HARPER, W. Neutron Terminology. Nature 191, 60 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191060a0
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