A method of projective synchronization based on stability criterion of linear systems is introduced and a technical scheme of chaotic masking for secure communication is proposed. A nonlinear drive vector function of special chaotic state variable is constructed with scaling factor α for chaotic synchronization by separating linear and nonlinear terms properly. Transmission information is injected into one element of state vector as carrier signal. Complexity of masking information and decoding difficulty is increased. Lorenz attractor and hyper-chaotic Rössler attractor are used as an example to simulate sinusoidal information. Amplitude and frequency of signal can be chosen in a wide range. Added scale factor α makes decryption process more complex, thus improving security of communication. The method is proved effective for secure communication.

A multi cycle optimization approach and program system is developed for a low-leakage in-corefuel management. In this system, the multi cycle optimization process is achieved in three stages:At first, use a linear programming method to find an optimum power sharing distribution and optimum cycle length distribution for the successive several cycles. which yields maximum multi cycle total cycle length. Secondly, detenmine the optimum fuel arrangment on the basis of the Former stage results by employing a linear programming method or directly search method for successive every one of the multi cycle. In the third stage, optimize the burnable poison assignment by Flexible Tolerance Method (FTM).