Which risk increases when fissile material binding energy varies unexpectedly?

💡 Explanation

Unexpected changes to binding energy causes variations in neutron production. This leads to neutron flux spatial oscillations because reactor parameters are sensitive to flux profile symmetry; therefore localized power spikes, rather than even energy production, will occur instead.

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