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In the following, a simplified treatment of the problem of diffusion of slow neutrons will be given. The reason that this problem can be solved so much more easily than the well known transport problems of the kinetic theory of gases lies in the fact that the collisions involving two molecules of the diffusing substance can be neglected in the neutrons diffusion case. This makes the fundamental Boltzmann equation linear.
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Wigner, E.P. (1992). Diffusion of Slow Neutrons in Absorbing Materials. In: Weinberg, A.M. (eds) Nuclear Energy. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol A / 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77425-6_5
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