Digital Simulation of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

Combustion Engineering recently completed installation of a pressurized water reactor simulator at its Windsor, Connecticut engineering facility. This simulator duplicates the control room of Baltimore Gas & Electric Company´s Calvert Cliffs Unit #1. Principal characteristics of the plant are given in Appendix A. The simulator was designed and constructed by Singer Company, Simulation Products Division. The justification for training simulators and their application to operator training have been covered by other authors. This paper is oriented toward increasing the general understanding of the problems involved in developing a training simulator. While a training simulator has characteristics in common with system simulation for design analysis, there are problems which are unique to the training simulator. The table below shows its dual capabilities as a simulator and as a trainer.