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Professor Williams sought a physical explanation of the mathematical result, that, in a low power model of a nuclear reactor, the extinction probability is certainty in a critical system whereas the expected number of neutrons remains constant.
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Lewins, J.D. (1989). Contribution to the Discussion. In: Muñoz-Cobo, J.L., Difilippo, F.C. (eds) Noise and Nonlinear Phenomena in Nuclear Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5613-4_9
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