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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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From South Korea to Belgium: Testing a high-density research reactor fuel
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has developed a high-density uranium silicide fuel designed to replace high-enriched uranium in research reactors. Recent irradiation tests appear to be successful, KAERI reports, which means the fuel could be commercialized to continue a key global nuclear nonproliferation effort—converting research reactors to run on low-enriched uranium fuel.
Jiashuang Wan, Pengfei Wang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 6 | June 2020 | Pages 433-446
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1710419
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The task of this investigation is to design a controller that has a strong robustness in various operating conditions. A new structure of state feedback assisted classical control (SFACC) that uses a differential lag compensator in the inner classical control loop is proposed to improve the robustness of original SFACC. The linear quadratic Gaussian with loop transfer recovery (LQG/LTR) at the plant output is employed to design the robust controller in the outer control loop. A comparison of the performance and robustness between the gain-insensitive controller and an existing LQG/LTR controller is made by nonlinear simulations. The proposed gain-insensitive LQG/LTR controller can give satisfying performance for both reactor power and coolant temperature over a wide range of reactor operations.