Development of a Modern Pressurized Water Reactor Simulator: Instrumentation, Design and Data Acquisition

Author

Osborne, Dustin R. ; Hou, Jia ; Graves, Gary ; Miller, Laurence F.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

556

Lastpage

558

Abstract

A method is proposed for redesigning an existing pressurized water reactor simulator with modern control and data acquisition electronics along with a custom designed GUI. This system will be used in providing instruction to undergraduate and graduate Nuclear Engineers on the operation of a Pressurized Water Reactor and for simulation of nuclear criticality events. This system will allow users from across the world to access the simulator in order to run modeling and optimization experiments for assisting in the future development of reactor technology and the development of this simulator project.

Keywords

data acquisition; fission reactor design; fission reactor instrumentation; graphical user interfaces; nuclear engineering computing; GUI; PWR design; data acquisition electronics; graphical user interface; nuclear criticality events; optimization experiments; pressurized water reactor simulator; reactor instrumentation; Control systems; Data acquisition; Graphical user interfaces; Inductors; Instruments; Power engineering and energy; Power system relaying; Pressure control; Solid state circuits; Temperature control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436393

Filename

4436393