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Virginia utility considers SMRs
Dominion Energy Virginia has issued a request for proposals from leading nuclear companies to study the feasibility of putting a small modular reactor at its North Anna nuclear power plant.
While the utility says it is not a commitment to build an SMR at the site, the RFP is “an important first step in evaluating the technology and the North Anna site to support Dominion Energy customers’ future energy needs consistent with the company’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan.”
Robert M. Edwards, Kwang Y. Lee, M. A. Schultz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 2 | November 1990 | Pages 167-185
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34468
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new control concept, state feedback assisted classical control, is described. The concept incorporates a classical output feedback control system as an easily understood inner control loop and casts modern state feedback in the role of a demand signal augmentation to achieve the goals of an optimal control design. The new control configuration is proposed as a method to achieve transparency of control for implementation of optimal control theory for nuclear reactors and power plants. It may find acceptance for incremental modernization of existing plants because it may permit existing control loops to remain in place while new control loops are added to optionally augment demand signals to achieve an optimal control objective. This approach also leads into the design of robust and fault-tolerant control of nuclear power plants.