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← ScienceWhich risk increases when fissile material binding energy varies unexpectedly?
A)Neutron flux spatial oscillations✓
B)Enriched uranium resource depletion
C)Delayed neutron arrival instability
D)Xenon-135 inventory shifts
💡 Explanation
Unexpected changes to binding energy causes variations in neutron production. This leads to neutron flux spatial oscillations because reactor parameters are sensitive to flux profile symmetry; therefore localized power spikes, rather than even energy production, will occur instead.
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