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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2019
Applicant:

Framatome Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;

Inventors:

Andreas Kuhn, Geiselbach, DE;

Klaus-Peter Hornung, Göllheim, DE;

Dreves Heike, Mainaschaff, DE;

Andreas Petrasch, Fürth, DE;

Assignee:

FRAMATOME GmbH, Erlangen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 7/08 (2006.01); G21D 3/00 (2006.01); G21D 3/16 (2006.01); G21C 3/326 (2006.01); G21C 17/108 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 7/08 (2013.01); G21D 3/002 (2019.01); G21D 3/16 (2013.01); G21C 3/326 (2013.01); G21C 17/108 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is for controlling a nuclear power plant comprising a pressurized water nuclear reactor. The method includes determining that an obtained waiting period and/or a remaining waiting period is greater than a first predetermined time allowing raising of a Xenon concentration to maximal value. The method further includes, responsive to the determination, moving one or more control rods out of the reactor core for compensating the reactivity loss due to an increase of the Xenon concentration, and moving the one or more control rods into the reactor core to a control rod setpoint for the start of power ramp up before the end of the obtained waiting period and/or remaining waiting period.


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