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DOE consortium begins new initiative aimed at growing fuel cycle
The U.S Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, through its Defense Production Act (DPA) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consortium, has begun a new initiative aimed at securing the nation’s nuclear fuel supply chain.
Shih-Jen Wang, Chun-Sheng Chien, Shih-Hsiin Chang, Suh-Chyn Jeng
Nuclear Technology | Volume 106 | Number 3 | June 1994 | Pages 397-406
Technical Paper | Reactor Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A34969
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Based on the boiling water reactor plant analyzer of Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Chinshan plant analyzer of Taiwan Power Company, the Kuosheng plant analyzer was developed for the Kuosheng nuclear power station. This work verifies the feedwater system models with a downcomer level setpoint change transient. A transient induced by a step change in the downcomer level setpoint is simulated with the Kuosheng plant analyzer and is compared with test data. Discrepancies are found in the response of the feedwater system. Mathematical models of the feedwater system are revised, and the associated key parameters are identified from plant data with the simplex search method. After revision, the predicted results show good agreement with the test data.