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SC Nuclear Summit focuses on V.C. Summer
The second annual South Carolina Nuclear Summit held last week featured utility executives and legislators from the state, as well as leaders from Brookfield Asset Management, which is being considered to restart construction on the two abandoned reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in Fairfield County. The summit, at the University of South Carolina’s Colonial Life Arena, attracted more than 350 attendees. The event was hosted by the university’s Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing.
W. Joe Gist, Stanley R. Bull, C. Leon Partain
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 2 | June 1975 | Pages 97-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A27338
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The kinetics of a flux-trap cylindrical reactor system were studied both theoretically and experimentally. A state-variable approach was used to develop a twenty-fourth-order model describing neutron and temperature kinetics in 14 regional system components. The modified Mikhailov method was used to determine the stability of the model. The reactor system was studied using step testing and pseudorandom multifrequency binary sequence testing procedures with a small-computer based instrumentation system. Measurements were made at powers of 1, 2.5, and 4 MW. The frequency response analysis of the system model compared favorably with experimental observations.
