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DOE issues final RFQ for WIPP clean energy initiative
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for qualifications for interested parties and prospective offerors looking to enter into a realty agreement for carbon-pollution-free electricity (CFE) projects at the department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in southeastern New Mexico.
Joshua Peterson, Erich Schneider
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2013 | Pages 28-42
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-49
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A modified form of first-order perturbation theory, called phase-space interpolated perturbation theory (PSIPT), was developed to more accurately model families of perturbations where changes are intermediate to defined reference and bounding configurations. PSIPT can thus be used on any application where the range of change to the system is known a priori but the magnitude of change is not known. PSIPT is demonstrated for several applications, notably the position of the outer shim control cylinders (OSCCs) at the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). The current method used for calculating the OSCC positions during a cycle startup utilizes a heuristic trial-and-error approach that is impractical with advanced computationally intensive reactor physics tools. PSIPT is implemented into a method to automate shim rotation prediction for startup.