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THE STABILITY OF HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEAR REACTORS WITH NON-LINEAR REACTIVITY DEPENDENCE ON TEMPERATURE

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4843267
ABS>Presented at the European Atomic Energy Society Symposium on Safety, Control and Instrumentation of Zero Energy and Sub-Critical Assemblies, Bournemouth, June 28The stability and instability properties of homogeneous nuclear reactors with a single temperature coefficient of reactivity which is temperature dependent were studied by means of Liapounoff's Second Method. The special case of a ten temperature coefficient linearly dependent on temperature was solved completely and it is shown that all solution are bounded and tend asymptotically to a constant if the reactivity is negative for very large values of temperature. In some conditions, the reactor has two stable equilibrium points (bistable). (auth)
Research Organization:
European Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris
NSA Number:
NSA-15-028742
OSTI ID:
4843267
Report Number(s):
NP-10560
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English

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