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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.
Michael O. Fryer, William M. Yarbrough
Nuclear Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | January 1983 | Pages 14-22
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33098
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The performance of a Kalman filter that estimates core power in a pressurized water reactor was evaluated using data from the Loss of Fluid Test (LOFT) Reactor and linear error analysis techniques. The Kalman filter provides a more accurate core power estimate in real time than does the conventional method of power estimation. Accuracies of better than 0.75% of rated power are obtained with the Kalman filter. If this accuracy improvement can be translated into higher levels of power operation, then more revenue can be generated by a commercial power plant. Scaling the LOFT 150-MW(thermal) l accuracy improvement up to a 1000-MW(electric) commercial power plant size, assuming that average power production is increased by the amount of the accuracy improvement, results in more than $800 000 of extra revenue per year ($0.06/kW·h).