US nuclear power: Reactor dispute near Brookhaven

Accidents in a nuclear power reactor operation.

Commentary: childhood cancer near nuclear power stations

In 2008, the KiKK study in Germany reported a 1.6-fold increase in solid cancers and a 2.2-fold increase in leukemias among children living within 5 km of all German nuclear power stations. The study has triggered debates as to the cause(s) of these increased cancers. This article reports on the findings of the KiKK study; discusses past and more recent epidemiological studies of leukemias near...

Floating Power Sources Based on Nuclear Reactor Plants

North regions and distant areas assimilated to them cover more than 50% of territory of Russia, where ~ 20 mln. people live. These regions are characteristic of remoteness from year-round water traffic arteries and railways. The richest mineral resources are found and developed there. 2/3 of the country natural – resources potential is concentrated in the North of Russia, the potential implemen...

RTC-method for the control of nuclear reactor power

In this paper, a new concept of the Reactivity Trace Curve (RTC) for reactor power control is presented. The concept is demonstrated for a reactor model with one group of delayed neutrons, where the reactivity trace curve is simply a closed form exponential solution of the RTC-differential equation identifier. An extended reactor model of multigroup (six groups) of delayed neutrons is discussed...

Updating the Lambda modes of a nuclear power reactor

This problem is known as the Lambda Modes problem. The fundamental eigenvalue (the largest one) is called the effective multiplication, k-effective, of the reactor core. This eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenfunction describe the steady state neutron distribution in the core. On the other hand, to compute the dominant modes of the reactor core is useful to develop modal methods [2] to inte...