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Aidan Christopher George Rigby

Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory

Box 1625

Idaho Falls, ID 83415

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

DOWNLOADS

636

TOTAL CITATIONS

7

Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Dynamic Modelling of Flexible Dispatch in a Novel Nuclear-Solar Integrated Energy System with Thermal Energy Storage

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Aug 2023
Aidan Christopher George Rigby, Mike Wagner and Ben Lindley
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 172 (437,795)
Citation 3

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Integrated Energy System, Dynamic Modeling, Thermal Energy Storage, Concentrating Solar Power, Nuclear Energy, Modelica

A Technology Assessment of Heat Exchangers and Compressors to Enable High Efficiency Brayton Cycle Designs for Nuclear Power Plants

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 05 Jan 2026
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory
Downloads 61 (1,017,159)

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Nuclear Power, Brayton cycles, power conversion, efficiency optimization, cycle design, advanced reactors

A Technology Assessment of Heat Exchangers and Compressors to Enable High Efficiency Brayton Cycle Designs for Nuclear Power Plants

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Sep 2025
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory
Downloads 39 (1,238,337)
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nuclear power, Brayton cycles, power conversion, efficiency optimization, cycle design, advanced reactors

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An Analysis of Physics Limited Dispatch of Nuclear Renewable Integrated Energy Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Modeling

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Nov 2024
Aidan Christopher George Rigby, Ryan Spangler, Daniel Mikkelson, Michael Wagner and Ben Lindley
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Deep Reinforcement Learning, Nuclear Integrated Energy Systems, Energy Arbitrage, Dispatch Optimization, Dynamic Modelling, System Operational Limits

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An Exergy Based Assessment of the Efficiency of Nuclear Fuel Cycles

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 30 Jul 2022
Aidan Christopher George Rigby, Ben Lindley and Jonathan M. Cullen
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Cambridge - Department of Engineering
Downloads 72 (867,774)
Citation 1

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Energy Efficiency, Exergy analysis, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Sankey Diagrams, Nuclear Exergy, Energy Sustainability

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Generation and Validation of Comprehensive Synthetic Weather Histories Using Auto-Regressive Moving-Average Models

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Dec 2023
Aidan Christopher George Rigby, Una Baker, Ben Lindley and Michael Wagner
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 68 (891,180)
Citation 1

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Synthetic data generation, Auto-Regressive Moving-Average, Concentrated solar power, Renewable
Energy, integrated energy systems

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Co-Optimization of Nuclear Reactor Flexible Power Operation and Maintenance Scheduling

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Aug 2024
Aidan Christopher George Rigby, Saeed Alhadhrami and Ben Lindley
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 65 (924,743)

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Prognostics and Health Management, flexible power operation, small modular reactor, dispatch

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Design Assessment of Brayton Cycles for Combined Heat and Power from Nuclear Power Plants

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Oct 2025
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and Czech Technical University in Prague
Downloads 47 (1,121,190)
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nuclear power, Brayton cycle, combined heat and power, high temperature reactor

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An Analysis of Energy Needs and Seawater-Extraction Approaches for the Integration of Primary Magnesium Production with Nuclear Power

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Sep 2025
Aidan Christopher George Rigby and Aaron Wilson
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory
Downloads 36 (1,249,711)

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Magnesium production, Seawater extraction, Nuclear integrated energy system, Combined heat and power, Electrolysis of magnesium chloride