NDLI: The Instrumentation and Control Circuits of Nuclear Reactors

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Cooke-Yarborough, E.H.
Copyright Year	1931
Abstract	The chain reaction which takes place in a nuclear reactor is a regenerative process and can therefore be unstable, so the fission rate must be closely controlled in order that the nuclear reaction may proceed at a rate which is both useful and safe. Electronic circuits play a vital part in this, and their reliability must be exceedingly high, as many reactors are required to run for months without interruption and for years without an unscheduled shutdown. This paper considers in a very elementary way the dynamic behavior of a reactor and the circuit requirements associated with maintaining the power level constant. The additional problems associated with starting-up and the automatic shutting-down of a reactor are briefly surveyed and the use of automatic data-handling is considered. It is concluded that not all instrumentation and control problems presented by existing types of reactor have been satisfactorily solved and that more advanced reactors will present still more difficult problems.
Starting Page	1261
Ending Page	1266
Page Count	6
File Size	1512338
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00968390
Volume Number	50
Issue Number	5
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1962-05-01
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc. (IRE)
Subject Keyword	Reactor instrumentation Neutrons Inductors Fission reactors Radiation detector circuits Chromium Delay Kinetic theory Energy conversion Electronic circuits
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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