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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
S. G. Tzafestas, N. G. Chrysochoides, K. Rokkos
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 87 | Number 4 | August 1984 | Pages 454-460
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18511
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In this Note the control problem of linearized coupled-core multivariable nuclear reactors is treated by using a recent exact model matching technique in the frequency domain. The case of state feedback control is first considered and then the results are used where only the output variables of the reactor are available for feedback. A numerical example of a three-coupled-core nuclear reactor model with one delayed neutron group for each core and short neutron travel time between cores is included.