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Constellation seeks rezone for property adjacent to Illinois plant
While no development details have been released, Constellation is asking to rezone 658.8 acres of land it owns around the Byron nuclear plant in Illinois for possible long-term use.
Maria Pusa, Jaakko Leppänen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 164 | Number 2 | February 2010 | Pages 140-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE09-14
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The topic of this paper is the computation of the matrix exponential in the context of burnup equations. The established matrix exponential methods are introduced briefly. The eigenvalues of the burnup matrix are important in choosing the matrix exponential method, and their characterization is considered. Based on the characteristics of the burnup matrix, the Chebyshev rational approximation method (CRAM) and its interpretation as a numeric contour integral are discussed in detail. The introduced matrix exponential methods are applied to two test cases representing an infinite pressurized water reactor pin-cell lattice, and the numerical results are presented. The results suggest that CRAM is capable of providing a robust and accurate solution to the burnup equations with a very short computation time.