USE OF DETECTORS FOR REACTOR IN CORE MONITORING

Sergey Azarov, Alexander Taranovsky

Abstract


In this analytical survey of domestic and foreign scientific and technical literature publications, research problems of different types of in-core detectors and of In-Reactor Control Systems (IRCS)are considered. The problems of IRCS development are discussed and a novel nonconventional concept of reactor-control is suggested.

Keywords


Reactor control system, in-core detectors, calorimetric detector, energy release control

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