The use of epithermal neutron beam in clinical trials of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for patients with malignant brain tumors had been carried out for half a decade at the Brookhaven's Medical Reactor. The decision to permanently close this reactor in 2000 cut short the efforts to implement a new conceptual design to optimize this beam in preparation for use with possible new BNCT protocols. ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency convened, in the framework of its Fusion Technology and Engineering Programme, the 4th Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology at Yalta, USSR, from 26 May — 6 June 1986. This report contains all summaries of sessions that were organized during the workshop. The papers presented at the meeting are being published by the Agen...

The basic structure of a reactor physics laboratory environment simulation software, developed using object modeling technique (OMT), and based on the reactor point kinetic equation, is presented. Also, various capabilities of the simulator in teaching the fundamental concepts of reactor physics are discussed. &#10 In this virtual laboratory, student can perform seven different experiments...

Design and control of recycle systems must be integrated at an early design stage. By placing together the pieces of the design puzzle we developed a novel methodology that allows the screening and selection of feasible integrated designs at an early stage. The generic structure is the Reactor-Separator-Recycle (R-S-R) system. Multiple steady states are possible and a minimum reactor volume is ...

In this study, the effectiveness of two conventional UV reactors in series for the online sterilization of cheese whey was compared to that of a single conventional reactor. The single reactor and the two reactor series were tested at eleven flow rates (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60 and 70 mL min ) and five flow rates, (35, 40, 50, 60, 70 mL min ), respectively. 100% destruction efficie...

In this paper, the design of a robust static output feedback controller is presented. This problem is transformed to solving of linear matrix inequality (LMI) problems. A computationally simple LMI based non-iterative algorithm is used. The design procedure guarantees with sufficient conditions the robust quadratic stability and guaranteed cost. The presented approach is applied for robust cont...

A roadmap for developing accelerator driven systems (ADS) in India was prepared in 2001. The first phase of the activities under the program began with the commencement of the tenth plan in 2002. This involves the development of a 10 MeV (upgradeable to 20 MeV), 30 mA proton linear accelerator, the setting up of a lead bismuth eutectic (LBE) loop for target and coolant studies and a reactor phy...