At equilibrium, precursor production balances precursor decay:
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Therefore
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The delayed neutron precursor population can exceed the instantaneous neutron population even when the delayed neutron fraction is small: the delayed neutron precursor reservoir persists much longer than an individual prompt-neutron generation.

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