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Siting of Canadian repository gets support of tribal nation
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation has indicated its willingness to support moving forward to the next phase of the site selection process to host a deep geological repository for Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
Hassan M. Emara, Adel A. Hanafy, Magdy M. Zaky Abdelaal, Sayed Elaraby
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 174 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 87-95
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-8
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Several analytical model reduction techniques have been proposed in the literature over the past few decades. We introduce the application of the Schur model reduction method to design a reduced-order, robust controller for the Egyptian Second Testing Research Reactor (ETRR-2). The linear matrix inequality approach is used to design a robust, low-order H state feedback control system and a robust H observer-based controller to control the reactor power. A comparison between the proposed controllers and the actually used conventional proportional-plus-derivative controller is presented based on the simulation of the full-order nonlinear model. Results show the effectiveness of H observer-based state feedback for control of the reactor power at different operation conditions and that it guarantees the system stability.