Plant control impact on IFR power plant passive safety response

Conference · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10145690

Vilim, R B

A method is described for optimizing the closed-loop plant control strategy with respect to safety margins sustained in the unprotected upset response of a liquid metal reactor. The optimization is performed subject to the normal requirements for reactor startup, load change and compensation for reactivity changes over the cycle. The method provides a formal approach to the process of exploiting the innate self-regulating property of a metal fueled reactor to make it less dependent on operator action and less vulnerable to automatic control system fault and/or operator error.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Reactor Analysis Div.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10145690
• Report Number(s): ANL/RA/CP-78880; CONF-930401-11; ON: DE93009968
• Resource Relation: Conference: Meeting on nuclear plant instrumentation, control and man-machine interface technologies,Oak Ridge, TN (United States),18-21 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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