As long as you calibrate the calorimeter, and the input power is known by the independent experimenters using their own instruments and power supply, then there is nothing you can do inside the control reactor to prevent an accurate comparison.Skipjack wrote:And how would calibrating the calorimeter prevent tinkering with the control reactor? Unless you can see what is inside, you cant know what is happening in there...This type of calorimetry must be conducted using controls. Prior to the experiment the calorimeter must be calibrated with a known input power, there is no oportunity to "do something" to the other reactor core if standard practices are used. The most basic of the "mutually agreed upon" experimental protocols would obviously be calibrating the calorimeter. No competent person would ever agree to put there name on such a measurement without a series of control measurements, which are standard practice in this type of calorimetry.
If I know what temperature the outside surface of the calorimeter will be at a given input power, if I input that power into the control reactor I will see that external temperature. That is the nature of a control.