Nuclear Reactor Kinetics and Plant Control

✍ Scribed by Yoshiaki Oka (auth.), Yoshiaki Oka, Katsuo Suzuki (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: An Advanced Course in Nuclear Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 theory of nuclear reactor kinetics and control and the state-of-the-art practice in actual plants, as well as the idea of how to bridge the two. The first part focuses on understanding fundamental nuclear kinetics. It introduces delayed neutrons, fission chain reactions, point kinetics theory, reactivity feedbacks, and related measurement techniques. The second part helps readers to grasp the theories and practice of nuclear power plant control. It introduces control theory, nuclear reactor stability, and the operation and control of existing nuclear power plants such as a typical pressurized water reactor, a typical boiling water reactor, the prototype fast breeder reactor Monju, and the high-temperature gas-cooled test reactor (HTTR). Wherever possible, the design and operation data for these plants are provided.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Delayed Neutron and Nuclear Reactor Kinetics....Pages 3-8
Point Reactor Kinetics....Pages 9-22
Temperature Effect of Reactivity....Pages 23-33
Kinetics Parameters and Reactivity Measurement Experiments....Pages 35-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Control System Basics and PID Control....Pages 49-91
Reactor Stability Study....Pages 93-128
Actual Operation Control of Boiling Water Reactor....Pages 129-166
Actual Operation and Control of Pressurized Water Reactor....Pages 167-208
Actual Operation and Control of Fast Reactor....Pages 209-236
Actual Operation and Control of High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor....Pages 237-253
New Control Theory and Its Application....Pages 255-284
Erratum: Nuclear Reactor Kinetics and Plant Control....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 285-305

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Engineering;Energy Technology