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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Jirí Svarný, Václav Krýysl, Pavel Mikolás, Karel Vlachovský
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 128 | Number 1 | January 1998 | Pages 76-87
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1947
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The calculation of point-kinetics parameters of a nuclear reactor in the MOBY-DICK macrocode system is based on standard regular flux-spectrum-weighted collapsed procedure with implicit impact of the burnup process. The limitation of this method is discussed, and bilinearly flux-adjoint-weighted corrections are derived. Applications for the VVER-type reactor with group-collapsing procedures are provided.