Pull the Rods Out and Stand Back

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Now that you understand what powers your PWR—both in terms of the physics and the engineering—it’s probably time to get behind the controls and have a go at driving it. You’re going to begin with a reactor start-up; think of it as pulling away from the curb…

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Tucker, C. (2019). Pull the Rods Out and Stand Back. In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_7

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