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So, your reactor is running at full power. Temperatures are on target, and xenon has reached equilibrium. Your power station is producing more than 1200 MW of electricity; that’s about 3% of UK average demand. Just how quiet is it in the control room?
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Tucker, C. (2019). Steady Power with Nothing to Do?. In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_16
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