Developments in a nuclear power station programmed protection system

Author

Pilaud, Eric ; Gerin, Merlin

Author_Institution

Dept. SES, Grenoble, France

fYear

1991

fDate

13-16 May 1991

Firstpage

826

Lastpage

830

Abstract

An examination is made of the development of nuclear power station programmed protection systems and the problems and challenges set by the safety requirements of these systems. Between 1980 and 1984 the first nuclear power stations programmed protection system (SPIN) for the French 1300-MW power stations were developed. Since it was necessary to deal with the problem of software safety, a safety-oriented software was adopted and applied to these systems. These systems have been in service at more than 20 sites for six years. Since 1986, a new generation of the SPIN system for 1450-MW plants, which corresponds to a significant expansion of the software, has been developed

Keywords

fission reactor safety; nuclear engineering computing; nuclear power stations; power station computer control; protection; software reliability; 1300 MW; 1450 MW; SPIN; nuclear power station programmed protection system; software reliability; software safety; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Hardware; Power generation; Power system protection; Redundancy; Sensor systems; Software safety; System testing; Voting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

CompEuro '91. Advanced Computer Technology, Reliable Systems and Applications. 5th Annual European Computer Conference. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Bologna

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2141-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPEUR.1991.257497

Filename

257497