Control of Nuclear Power Plants

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1978, Pages 405-417

  Frogner, B ^a   Rao, H S ^a  

^a Systems Control Inc   (United States)

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NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0017981095     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: 15582523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.1978.1101774     Document Type: Article

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