Requrirements for Nuclear Power Reactor Siting

Risk optimization: siting of nuclear power electricity generating units

Radiological doses from nuclear power plant accidents can extend to great distances away from the site. These technical and perceived risks of nuclear power generation are addressed in an optimization of the siting of additional nuclear units primarily in the middle Atlantic and northeastern United States of America. This study relies on a constrained optimization of long-term latent cancer and...

Accidents in a nuclear power reactor operation.

RTC-method for the control of nuclear reactor power

In this paper, a new concept of the Reactivity Trace Curve (RTC) for reactor power control is presented. The concept is demonstrated for a reactor model with one group of delayed neutrons, where the reactivity trace curve is simply a closed form exponential solution of the RTC-differential equation identifier. An extended reactor model of multigroup (six groups) of delayed neutrons is discussed...

Floating Power Sources Based on Nuclear Reactor Plants

North regions and distant areas assimilated to them cover more than 50% of territory of Russia, where ~ 20 mln. people live. These regions are characteristic of remoteness from year-round water traffic arteries and railways. The richest mineral resources are found and developed there. 2/3 of the country natural – resources potential is concentrated in the North of Russia, the potential implemen...

Updating the Lambda modes of a nuclear power reactor

This problem is known as the Lambda Modes problem. The fundamental eigenvalue (the largest one) is called the effective multiplication, k-effective, of the reactor core. This eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenfunction describe the steady state neutron distribution in the core. On the other hand, to compute the dominant modes of the reactor core is useful to develop modal methods [2] to inte...