The fuel-temperature derivative of reactor reactivity associated with thermal broadening of nuclear resonances, with the other state variables specified. In ordinary uranium-fueled water reactors it is negative: heating the fuel increases effective resonance capture. Its magnitude depends on spectrum, fuel state and resonance self-shielding, so its sign does not determine how its magnitude changes under a lattice redesign.[ref]
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