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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.”
Hiroshi Matsuoka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 94 | Number 2 | May 1991 | Pages 228-241
Technical Paper | Advances in Reactor Accident Consequence Assessment / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34544
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A simple image model, the package flow model, for fuzzy simulation of nuclear reactor system dynamics is presented. By using this model, fuzzy inference rules and their membership functions are easily obtained. The system dynamics can be approximately simulated by fuzzy inference. The method and some examples are described. The advantages of this model are intuitive under-standability, flexible modification, and simplicity. Furthermore, high-speed calculation and high reliability can be realized by using fuzzy computing hardware in the near future.