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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
P. J. Sipush, R. A. Kerr, A. P. Ginsberg, T. Morita, L. R. Scherpereel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 31 | Number 1 | October 1976 | Pages 12-31
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31695
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Comprehensive load-follow demonstrations were conducted on Consolidated Edison’s Indian Point, Unit 2 plant located in Buchanan, New York, in August and September of 1974. The purpose was to examine new load-follow procedures recently developed by Westinghouse for pressurized water reactor usage. These procedures are based on constant axial offset (or target flux difference) power-distribution control. Two different modes of load-follow operation, with and without part-length control rods, were performed. The operational feasibility of constant axial offset power-distribution control has been verified as a result of the Indian Point demonstrations.