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House, Senate bills aim to improve nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal
Two bills were introduced in the last several weeks aiming to address nuclear power at the end of life—decommissioning plants and recycling used fuel.
Edgar F. Bennett, Robert L. Long
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 425-432
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17392
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Expected errors in reactivity measurements made with a servo control are discussed and compared with observation. The influence upon measurement statistics of a residual spurious reactivity drift, of variable detector efficiency, and of servo control parameters is examined and compared with results using a thermal reactor at 72 watts. Power limited precision is shown to be obtainable with a servo control over a broad range of operating configurations and with good discrimination against incoherent residual reactivity drift.
