Uncertainties in the Anti-neutrino Production at Nuclear Reactors

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Anti-neutrino emission rates from nuclear reactors are determined from thermal power measurements and fission rate calculations.

• The uncertainties in these quantities for commercial power plants and their impact on the calculated interaction rates in electron anti-neutrino detectors is examined.
• We discuss reactor-to-reactor correlations between the leading uncertainties and their relevance to reactor anti-neutrino experiments.