The reactor dead time is the time that reactor operator need to wait for the xenon neutron poison to decay to the point where they can restart the reactor
High Enriched Uranium – can be used to overcome the reactor dead time
Sources
- [1] M. Ragheb, “Nuclear Naval Propulsion,” in Nuclear Power – Deployment, Operation and Sustainability, P. Tsvetkov, Ed., InTech, 2011. doi: 10.5772/19007.