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Address @drewejohnson comments on #1545

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@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ complicated by the fact that the branching ratio may depend on the incident
neutron energy causing capture.
OpenMC does not currently allow energy-dependent capture branching ratios.
However, the depletion chain file does allows a transmutation reaction to be
However, the depletion chain file does allow a transmutation reaction to be
listed multiple times with different branching ratios resulting in different
products. Spectrum-averaged capture branching ratios have been computed in LWR
and SFR spectra and are available at https://openmc.org/depletion-chains.
@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ of FPY:
3. Compute the average energy at which fission events occur and use an effective
FPY by linearly interpolating between FPY provided at neighboring energies.
The method can be selected through the ``fission_yield_mode`` argument to the
:class:`openmc.deplete.Operator` constructor.
Power Normalization
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@ -240,3 +243,6 @@ user to choose one of two methods for estimating the heating rate, including:
other codes that use fixed Q values), or
2. Using the ``heating`` or ``heating-local`` scores to obtain an nuclide- and
energy-dependent estimate of the true heating rate.
The method for normalization can be chosen through the ``energy_mode`` argument
to the :class:`openmc.deplete.Operator` class.