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Adoption of Improved Algorithms for Controlling the Energy Release of a VVER-1000 Core at the Khmel’nitskii Nuclear Power Plant

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Improved algorithms - a system of modern methods for controlling the energy release of the core of a VVER-1000 reactor - are described. Experience in adopting the improved algorithms in the No. 2 unit of the Khmel’nitskii nuclear power plant is presented.

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Translated from Atomnaya Energiya, Vol. 98, No. 6, pp. 414–421, June 2005.

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Aver’yanova, S.P., Semchenkov, Y.M., Filimonov, P.E. et al. Adoption of Improved Algorithms for Controlling the Energy Release of a VVER-1000 Core at the Khmel’nitskii Nuclear Power Plant. At Energy 98, 386–393 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0222-6

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