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Work advances on X-energy’s TRISO fuel fabrication facility
Small modular reactor developer X-energy, together with its fuel-developing subsidiary TRISO-X, has selected Clark Construction Group to finish the building construction phase of its advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility, known as TX-1, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. It will be the first of two Oak Ridge facilities built to manufacture the company’s TRISO fuel for use in its Xe-100 SMR. The initial deployment of the Xe-100 will be at Dow Chemical Company’s UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site on Texas’s Gulf Coast.
A. Ziya Akcasu and Larry D. Noble
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 4 | August 1966 | Pages 427-429
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18564
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Two criteria for the Lagrange stability in reactors with an arbitrary linear feedback have been derived. The feedback kernel is assumed to be G(t) = rδ(t) + K(t), where r is the power-reactivity coefficient, and K(t), which is assumed to be bounded and integrable in (0, ∞), represents other feedback effects. The Laplace transform of K(t) is denoted by (s). It is found that “a) if r < 0 and r + (s) = 0 has no positive real roots, and b) if K(x)dx ≤ 0 for all t ≥ 0 in the case of r = 0, then all the solutions of the kinetic equations are bounded.”