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The applications of nuclear energy extend beyond providing power to the electrical grid. Advanced nuclear technologies may soon have new applications in oil and gas facilities, in hospitals and clinics, on the open seas, and on the moon.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 493-499
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32357
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The effect of steam voids and control rods on the Doppler feedback and of bypass voids on the total void feedback has been calculated for a gadolinia-shimmed boiling water reactor. Calculations were done using a point model, i.e., feedback was expressed in terms of reactivity coefficients determined for individual four-bundle configurations and then appropriately combined to yield reactor results. For overpower transients, the inclusion of the void effect will make the Doppler feedback stronger. The effect of control rods is to reduce Doppler feedback. For overpressurization transients, the inclusion of the effect of bypass void will increase the reactivity due to void collapse.