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Your Reactor Is Stable (Part Two)

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How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor

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In this chapter, I’m going to explain the third key concept—how the design of the steam generators re-enforces the stability of the plant, and how it dictates what your reactor will do in response to events in the outside world.

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Tucker, C. (2019). Your Reactor Is Stable (Part Two). In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_12

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