Hello, I am using UEXTERNALDB to open my files and store them as variables for my other subroutines such as DFLUX and FILM. However, when trying to do this for UEPACTIVATIONVOL, this does not work because it is called before UEXTERNALDB.

Is there a way around having to read in the file in UEPACTIVATIONVOL for every node? This is really slowing down my analysis. I have tried changing LOP values in UEXTERNALDB but still no luck. I need to read in the values once in the analysis from my csv file and store the values to be used in UEPACTIVATIONVOL for the analysis.

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