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Wright officially sworn in for third term at the NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that David Wright, after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, was ceremonially sworn in as NRC chair on September 8.
This swearing in comes more than a month after Wright began his third term on the commission; he began leading as chair July 31. His term will conclude on June 30, 2030.
Alexander K. Popov, Juri N. Pepyolyshev, Eugene A. Bondarchenko
Nuclear Technology | Volume 139 | Number 1 | July 2002 | Pages 21-29
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3299
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A model of the IBR-2 pulsed reactor of periodic operation is developed to facilitate modeling of transitional processes. The model is constructed as a module structure with the help of discrete transitional functions of the kinetics, power feedback, and automatic regulator blocks taking into account nonlinear relationships. Good agreement between the calculated and experimental dependence of changes in the power for different changes in the setting reactivity is achieved. Using the model, power transition processes have been evaluated at different values of the parameters of the automatic power regulator (APR). It has been shown that the best transition processes correspond to higher APR rates at the elimination of the APR smoothing unit. Recommendations are given for choosing the APR parameters.