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New consortium to address industry need for nuclear heat and power
Hoping to tackle a growing global demand for energy, The Open Group, a vendor-neutral technology and standards membership organization, has announced the formation of the Industrial Advanced Nuclear Consortium (IANC) to collaborate on finding advanced nuclear energy solutions to serve industrial customers.
Jorma Karppinen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 657-672
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27398
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A review of spatial reactor control methods that have employed optimization techniques is presented. Automatic spatial control systems are briefly outlined, the formulation of the spatial control problem as an optimal control problem is discussed, and solution methods based on distributed parameter optimal control, variational calculus, dynamic programming, mathematical programming, the maximum principle, linear-quadratic control theory, and heuristic control techniques are reviewed.
