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Keeping up with Kewaunee
In October 2012, Dominion Energy announced it was closing the Kewaunee nuclear power plant, a two-loop 574-MWe pressurized water reactor located about 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wis., on the western shore of Lake Michigan. At the time, Dominion said the plant was running well, but that low wholesale electricity prices in the region made it uneconomical to continue operation of the single-unit merchant power plant.
L. B. Miller, G. H. Miley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 3 | June 1970 | Pages 438-448
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20195
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A Monte Carlo method for the analysis of the Doppler effect has been developed which employs special perturbation techniques to compute effects due to changes in both the temperature and the diameter of fuel rods. These techniques facilitate the application of Monte Carlo to this type of problem and make possible the elimination of approximations inherent in earlier analytic and numerical methods. Numerical results obtained by this method are in good agreement with previously reported measurements on ZPR-III. The method has been applied to the study of the effect of fuel diameter on the Doppler coefficient in a typical fast reactor. Reducing the fuel diameter in a sodium-cooled uranium-carbide reactor from 0.30 to 0.15 cm was found to increase the Doppler coefficient 13%.
