Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Demonstration of the reactivity constraint approach on SNL's annual core research reactor

Conference · · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Supplement; (USA)
OSTI ID:5228365
This paper reports on the initial demonstration of the reactivity constraint approach and its implementing algorithm, the MIT-CSDL Non-Linear Digital Controller, on the annual core research reactor (ACCR) that is operated by the Sandia National Laboratories. This demonstration constituted the first use of reactivity constraints for the closed-loop, digital control of reactor power on a facility other than the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) research reactor (MITR-II). Also, because the ACRR and the MITR-II are of very different design, these trials established the generic nature of the reactivity constraint approach.
OSTI ID:
5228365
Report Number(s):
CONF-890833--
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Supplement; (USA) Journal Volume: 59
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English