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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
J. Louis Tylee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 484-492
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32907
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The generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) technique performs statistical tests on the innovations sequence of a Kalman filter state estimator. Using the results of these tests, failures in the sensors of a pressurized water reactor pressurizer are detected and identified. A third-order, linear model of the pressurizer dynamics, which is required by both the GLR and Kalman filter formulations, is developed from first principles. Using actual pressurizer data, the GLR method is employed to identify a bias in one of three level sensors.