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Volnei Borges, Marco Túllio De Vilhena
Nuclear Technology | Volume 111 | Number 2 | August 1995 | Pages 251-259
Technical Paper | Nuclear Criticality Safety Special / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35134
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Recent advances in the study of a fluidized-bed nuclear reactor’s stability, due to short and long time transients, are discussed. The point-kinetic model, which considers flux variation in the axial direction, is applied to study short time transients, and the theory of bifurcation is used for long time transients. Numerical results are presented for both transients. The preliminary results indicate that this concept of a nuclear reactor has a behavior similar to that of a conventional reactor regarding its dynamic stability.