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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Dieter Hennig
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 1 | April 1999 | Pages 10-31
Technical Paper | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2955
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In the framework of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) transient analysis project STARS, a boiling water reactor (BWR) stability analysis methodology based on the BWR system code RAMONA3 has been developed. The time series analysis based on parametric mixed autoregressive/moving average models is conducted by a MATLAB code package using the system identification and the signal-processing toolboxes of MATLAB. A short description of the PSI methodology is presented and two aspects of the stability analysis are discussed. First, the physical mechanism underlying the BWR power oscillations from the nonlinear feedback system point of view is discussed, and second, some experiences collected by the analysis of the regional stability phenomenon are presented.