Conclusions and future directions

Kapitel i bok, 2025

In this book, a collection of ideas was presented about the possible use of noise analysis methods in next generation nuclear systems, and whenever it was possible, some quantitative estimates were also given about the expected efficiency and accuracy of the problems and methods investigated. The task was certainly difficult, and the material presented can by no means be considered as complete and covering all aspects. One obvious reason for this is the fact that most of the next generation systems are still in the design phase, and hence the concrete data of these cores are either not available or are not public. Even more so, there has been no operational experience with these systems which, among others, means that the list of possible operational concerns or malfunctions is rather incomplete. The only pragmatic way of handling the situation was to try to extrapolate from the experience with currently operating reactors and to check the possibilities of diagnostics and surveillance with the differing material and geometrical properties of these new systems, as well as extending the existing methods to suit the characteristic of these systems (such as developing an analytical model for fast reactors in two-group theory).