Control and safety requirements for the electrical engineering design of the C.E.G.B. nuclear power stations

The paper some features of the operation of nuclear power stations, which are a necessary part of the British power-system requirements. The electrical engineering systems make a major contribution to successful design, exploiting first the ability of electricity to give a reliable economical power source to station auxiliaries, and secondly the techniques, largely electrical, of measuring plant parameters and their effective control. As the equipment concerned has been described in detail elsewhere, the authors feel that an appraisal of the close relation between the control functions and the safety and security of the whole of a nuclear station might be of interest. The continuing development of these features is discussed, together with the outlook evolved from experience in the design of the first C.E.G.B. stations.