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  1. One way to make this blog more accessable to people who don’t work in the nuclear industry might be to include a glossary of terms and acronyms that are used. Acronyms are often time consuming to try to figure out if one looks elsewhere on the web for a definition because there is a long list of possible meanings and the one that your looking for may or may not be there.

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