Nuclear Reactor Kinetics and Plant Control

Understanding time-dependent behaviors of nuclear reactors and the methods of their control is essential to the operation and safety of nuclear power plants. This book provides graduate students, researchers, and engineers in nuclear engineering comprehensive information on both the fundamental theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Oka, Yoshiaki. (Editor), Suzuki, Katsuo. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:An Advanced Course in Nuclear Engineering,
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54195-0
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Nuclear Reactor Kinetics
  • Delay Neutron and Nuclear Reactor Kinetics
  • Point Reactor Kinetics
  • Temperature Effect of Reactivity
  • Kinetics Parameters and Reactivity Measurement Experiments
  • Part II Actual Nuclear Reactor Plant Control
  • Control system basics and PID control
  • Reactor Stability Study
  • Actual Operation Control of Boiling Water Reactor
  • Actual operation and control of PWR
  • Actual operation and control of fast reactor
  • Actual operation and control of high temperature engineering test reactor
  • New Control Theory and its Application Answers to practice exercises.