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Reactor Experiments   --   Reactor Demo #1
Review of Reactor Kinetics   and   Typical Startup Procedure

This lesson presents a review/overview of reactor kinetics and dynamics, with focus on the Generation Time Formulation of Point Kinetics. After appropriate review, an actual reactor demonstration that overviews a typical startup in the UMLRR is given -- and the history file from the Spring 2018 demo is included here. Thus, this page contains links to the review/overview of reactor kinetics and dynamics (including the Matlab-based kinetics_gui code), as well as actual reactor data from the UMLRR startup demo.

Upon completion of this lesson, the student should have a good understanding of point kinetics and how the UMLRR is brought from a subcritical shutdown condition to critical power operation. This "startup sequence" is performed on a regular basis each time the reactor is started.

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Last updated by Prof. John R. White (March 2020)

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