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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 2 | October 1973 | Pages 267-274
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A28195
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The variances of pulse fluctuations of a periodically pulsed fast reactor have been calculated. The characteristic parameters of SORA, the 1-MW pulsed fast reactor, under development by Euratom at Ispra, have been used as input data. As a result, the relative standard deviation was found to be independent of the duration of the power pulse and the pulse shape and inverse proportional to the square root of the operation power.
