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RE: Reactivity Units



Exactly correct since 0 dollars is just critical.

Dan Burnfield, CHP PE

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
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>>> Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov> 08/08/00 12:57PM >>>
At 10:20 AM 8/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>One cent of reactivity is therefore 1/100 of the reactivity needed to go
prompt critical.

More precisely: One cent of reactivity is 1/100 of the reactivity needed to
go from delayed critical to prompt critical.

mike
Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov 
phone: (505)667-6130
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