Ash M. Optimal shutdown control of nuclear reactors

Academic Press, New York and London, 1966. – 184 pp.
The shutdown problem of a high flux, thermal neutron nuclear reactor, with respect to the kinetics of the radioactive fission products it contains, principally xenon-135, is about twenty years old, having emerged from the Manhattan Project experience of World War
2. That the existence of the isotope xenon-135 in thermal reactors is to be contemplated with a healthy respect is attested to by the fact that xenon is one of the principal factors that limit the maximum operating power of present conventional thermal neutron reactors. There is another class of xenon problems which come under the heading of xenon spatial oscillations, sometimes called flux tilt oscillations. These are discussed only peripherally in this monograph.Xenon in Nuclear Reactors. Dynamic Programming 1.
Reactor Poisons. Dynamic Programming 2.
Poison Kinetics and Xenon Shutdown. Dynamic Programming 3.
The Maximum Principle.
Minimum and Minimax Xenon Shutdown.
Computational Aspects.
Experimental Verification.
Results and Conclusions.
Summary and Equivalences.Document Glossary.
Xenon Bibliography.