Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 8 / Number 1 / July 1960 / Pages 53-61
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE8-1-53
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Spectrum and variance of “pile noise” are discussed according to the formulation of S. O. Rice. It is shown that variance diverges as criticality is approached. A convergent quantity closely related to variance is introduced and observations on this quantity taken with ZPR-IV′, a light water-moderated highly enriched source reactor at Argonne.