Re: Japanese nuclear accident: Did the reaction oscillate?

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

Response to my own question:
>weeks ago). My question is: How can a neutron dose rate be sustained >at 
>approximately the same level for hours after a criticality >accident?

As I understand it - the reaction _must_ have been stabilized 
mechanistically (the reflector effect of the cooling water being one of 
those factors, other ones: temperature, concentration, geometry...) to run a 
continuous fission reaction. In other words: First a sharp peak in power and 
neutron flux and then a rapid stabilization phenomenon. Right or wrong?

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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