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NEUP honors young ANS members with R&D awards
Each year, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) recognizes graduate and undergraduate students for their innovative nuclear energy research. The winners of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition (INSC) receive honoraria along with travel and conference opportunities, including the chance to present their publications at the annual American Nuclear Society Winter Conference & Expo.
Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Jacques Devooght
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 6 | June 1960 | Pages 533-540
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25762
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A novel formulation of the problem of boundedness and stability of the power level of a nuclear reactor describable by a nonlinear model is presented. A sufficient criterion for boundedness and stability is derived and proved to be equivalent to the criterion suggested by Welton. The criterion is illustrated by means of two examples.
