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Knowing your reactor’s power level is going to be essential; much as you need to know the speed of any car that you drive. In a car, the speedometer works by counting how many times the wheels go around, but how do you measure the power of your reactor?
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Tucker, C. (2019). Watt Power?. In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_8
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