Assume that a cylindrical sample of iron of radius 4 cm by length 10 cm is irradiated by a highly collimated beam of 2.4 mev neutrons that enter in a direction normal to the circular face. the total absorbed dose is designed and verified to be 100 rads, administered over a period of one hour, and the energy deposition can be assumed to be uniform throughout the thin sample. assume an iron density of 7.87 g/cc.
assuming each neutron deposits exactly 10% of its incident energy within the sample before leaking out of the sample volume, what is the required incident neutron flux in neutrons/cm2-sec