On control of reactor shut-down involving minimal xenon poisoning.
ResearchPublished 1958
A treatment of the problem of optimum control of the process of shutting down a high-flux thermal-nuclear reactor to minimize the effects of xenon-135 poisoning. The problem is handled by the functional-equation technique of dynamic programming, relying on the use of high-speed digital computers with large memories. Classical methods of the calculus of variations do not seem applicable to the resulting extremal problem.
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Ash, Milton, Richard Ernest Bellman, and Robert E. Kalaba, On control of reactor shut-down involving minimal xenon poisoning. RAND Corporation, P-1500, 1958. As of September 14, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1500.html
Ash, Milton, Richard Ernest Bellman, and Robert E. Kalaba, On control of reactor shut-down involving minimal xenon poisoning. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1958. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1500.html. Also available in print form.
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