Talk:Neutron poison

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This article makes no mention of the fact that neutron poisons can also be used after nuclear meltdown to help slow the nuclear reactions and make the contaminated site 'safer'. Also to prevent further fission reactions from occuring. 67.162.168.248 (talk) 23:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Or, on the other hand, that the neutron poison Xe-135 is thought to have largely contributed to the Tchernobyl accident... 145.228.143.15 (talk) 12:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Removing (hopefully with no controversy) the link to Wikiproject Medicine
I am removing the template for Wikiproject Medicine. The subject of this article has nothing to do with medicine. No humans have or really can be poisoned by 'nuclear' poisons, which include such highly toxic substances as common household borax (sarcasm...).

Neutron poisoning rather involves certain elements that absorb neutrons and 'poison' the nuclear reaction in a reactor. The use of the term poison can be viewed similarly to how chemical engineers describe catalysts as 'poisoned'; certain contaminants in a chemical process stream can bond to a catalyst and stop the catalyst from functioning in a chemical reactor. This is described as 'poisoning' the catalyst.

No humans or animals are poisoned in this process, so I am removing the template for Wikiproject Medicine.Katana0182 (talk) 22:32, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Page moved - second request was not needed - redirects are automatic  Ron h jones (Talk) 00:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Nuclear poison → Neutron poison — Nuclear poison may lead to potential confusion that the subject under discussion in the page is radiation poisoning, as demonstrated by someone templating the talk page of this article as belonging to the Wikiproject Medicine without reading the article, which has nothing to do with poisoning of humans or animals, but rather the 'poisoning' (poisoning as in a catalyst is poisoned) of neutron multiplication - e.g. the chain reaction - within a nuclear reactor. The (US) authority in this area - the USNRC - lists both "nuclear poison" and "neutron poison" as synonyms for the subject of this page; changing the title to neutron poison will bring clarity as to what exactly is "being poisoned" (e.g. neutrons, specifically a chain reaction involving neutrons.). Katana0182 (talk) 23:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Neutron poison → Nuclear poison


 * Comment "neutron poison" would also be confused with the same, since neutron radiation exists... 76.66.192.73 (talk) 05:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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