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Bowman & Smith on NRC security programs
Greg Bowman and George Smith work for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in implementing programs that deal with risk, whether to nuclear power plants or from nuclear materials, such as radiological sabotage and theft or diversion of materials. Bowman is the director of the NRC’s Division of Physical and Cybersecurity Policy in the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. Smith is the senior project manager for security in the Source Management & Protection Branch of the Division of Materials Safety, Security, State, and Tribal Programs in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
The three initiatives Bowman and Smith discussed with Nuclear News editor-in-chief Rick Michal are the Insider Threat Program, the Cybersecurity Program, and the Domestic Safeguards Program.
Miguel Ceceñas-Falcón, Robert M. Edwards
Nuclear Technology | Volume 143 | Number 2 | August 2003 | Pages 125-131
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies | doi.org/10.13182/NT03-A3402
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The study of the first harmonic mode of the neutron spectrum in a boiling water reactor (BWR) yields the capability to assess the decay ratio for the harmonic mode and anticipate the impact on the fundamental mode when an out-of-phase oscillation is about to take place. In this work, the neutron spectrum for a BWR is approximated as a linear combination of the fundamental and first harmonic modes, and these two modes are studied applying reduced order modal models. A stability estimator is constructed to monitor the development of the harmonic mode instability through the calculation of the decay ratio. To achieve an estimation of the decay ratio for each mode, the estimator requires the separation of both modes from the neutron spectrum, and a method to obtain these modes based on a bare homogeneous reactor is presented. The Reduced Order Modal Estimator is tested with computer-generated data and with data from the Ringhals Stability Benchmark.