Computer Program for Automatic Generation of BWR Control Rod Patterns

Conference · Sun Nov 11 04:00:00 EST 1990 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:6932875

Taner, M. S. ^[1]; Levine, S. H. ^[1]; Hsia, M. Y. ^[1]

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1. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (United States)

A computer program named OCTOPUS has been developed to automatically determine a control rod pattern that approximates some desired target power distribution as closely as possible without violating any thermal safety or reactor criticality constraints. The program OCTOPUS performs a semi-optimization task based on the method of approximation programming (MAP) to develop control rod patterns. The SIMULATE-E code is used to determine the nucleonic characteristics of the reactor core state.

• Research Organization: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• OSTI ID: 6932875
• Report Number(s): CONF-901101--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Journal Volume: 62
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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