ABSTRACT
After the terror attack on the World Trade Center in the United States, safeguards in industrial facilities have become more important. The nuclear industry in particular has been interested in developing a better method for safe operations involving nanoscale nuclear material. Increasing the power using the power uprate method has been used in nuclear power plants (NPPs). Currently, the demand for electricity has been offset by increasing power rates in conventional NPPs. New construction of a power plant is very costly. As an alternative, power uprate of existing NPPs has been used frequently. Power uprate means the increase of the maximum power level at which a commercial nuclear power plant may operate.
