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Operational performance of the three bean salad control algorithm on the ACRR (Annular Core Research Reactor)

Ball, R.M.; Madaras, J.J.; Trowbridge Jr., F.R.; Talley, D.G.; Parma Jr., E.J.

Experimental tests on the Annular Core Research Reactor have confirmed that the Three-Bean-Salad'' control algorithm based on the Pontryagin maximum principle can change the power of a nuclear reactor many decades with a very fast startup rate and minimal overshoot. The paper describes the results of simulations and operations up to 25 MW and 87 decades per minute. 3 refs., 4 figs., 1 tab.