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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
H. A. Larson, I. A. Engen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 15 | Number 3 | September 1972 | Pages 462-464
Technical Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A16043
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Reactivity feedback is an important indicator in the analysis of the dynamic behavior of a nuclear reactor. The roddrop perturbation method is used at EBR-II to produce time-dependent power data which are pro cessed with an on-line digital data reduction procedure to produce time-dependent reactivity feedback; reactivity feedback models are defined in the time and frequency domains. This streamlined procedure has resulted in decreased data reduction time and man power requirements along with increased data integrity.