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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.
Toshio Sanda, Fumiaki Nakashima, Keisho Shirakata
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 113 | Number 2 | February 1993 | Pages 97-108
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE113-97
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Eigenvalue separation, which is used as a criterion to determine the degree of neutronic decoupling of the core, is measured by a static flux-tilt method on Zero-Power Physics Reactor assemblies. Space-dependent nuclear characteristics, such as the radial distributions of the reaction rates and the control rod worths, are also measured for the same assemblies. The calculation/experiment (C/E) values vary with core radius depending on the assemblies. The relationship between decoupling and C/E radial dependence is investigated, and a quantitative relation is found between the eigenvalue separation of the first radial mode and the C/E radial dependence.