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Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge the role of scores of students who helped refine the devel-
opment of an understandable and comprehensive treatment of course material on
reactor dynamics and control.
Graduate students provided innovative research results that contributed to the
book’s content.
The University of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department provided a sup-
portive environment that facilitated work on the book. We are thankful to Professor
Wes Hines, Head, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, for
his assistance and thoughtful suggestions.
Several colleagues helped through discussing various technical issues. Most
noteworthy were the following individuals: Syd Ball, retired scientist, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory; Larry Miller, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee;
Jamie Coble, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee; Ondrej Chvala,
Research Professor, University of Tennessee; Lubomir Sklenka, Professor, Depart-
ment of Nuclear Reactors, Czech Technical University, Prague.
A special thanks to Vik Singh, MS graduate in Nuclear Engineering, University
of Tennessee, for his diligence in checking the technical contents of the book and in
assisting in the development of graphics and simulation plots used in the book.
Finally, the preparation of this book would not have been possible without the
patience and support of our wives, Nancy Kerlin and Nimmi Upadhyaya. We deeply
appreciate their encouragement and sacrifice while we poured over a large amount of
technical material.
We are grateful to numerous organizations, including reactor suppliers, scientific
societies, government agencies, and technical publishers for providing permission to
use copyrighted material in the book. The following is a list of organizations to whom
we are deeply indebted:

• American Association of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA: Nuclear Reactors:
Generation to Generation, by Stephen M. Goldberg and Robert Rosner,
published by the American Association of Arts and Sciences, 2011.
• Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation, Knoxville, TN.
• AREVA NP, France.
• The Babcock and Wilcox Company, Barberton, OH: Steam, its generation and
use, Edition 42, 2015.
• Elsevier Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, U.K.: Handbook of Small Modular
Reactors, edited by M.D. Carelli and D.T. Ingersoll, 2015.
• GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC, Wilmington, NC.
• Micro-Simulation Technology, Montville, NJ: Dr. Li-Chi Cliff Po, President.
• Rosatom Overseas, The VVER today: Evolution, Design, Safety, www.rosatom.ru.
• Vik Singh: Study of the Dynamic Behavior of Molten Salt Reactors, MS Thesis,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 2019.

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