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November 9–12, 2025
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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 508-513
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A previous work on the closed-loop dynamics of nuclear rocket engines with bleed turbine drive3 is modified to study the engine dynamics using a topping turbine system. Root locus considerations show that the response characteristics of the two engine systems should be similar, although the topping turbine system has a faster initial response but slower asymptotic response. These conclusions are corroborated by analog simulation of the non-linear dynamic equations.
