Issues and approaches in control for autonomous reactor operation

Conference · Thu Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2000

OSTI ID:759087

Vilim, R B; Khalil, H S; Wei, T Y. C.

A capability for autonomous and passively safe operation is one of the goals of the NERI funded development of Generation IV nuclear plants. An approach is described for evaluating the effect of increasing autonomy on safety margins and load behavior and for examining issues that arise with increasing autonomy and their potential impact on performance. The method provides a formal approach to the process of exploiting the innate self-regulating property of a reactor to make it less dependent on operator action and less vulnerable to automatic control system fault and/or operator error. Some preliminary results are given.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 759087
• Report Number(s): ANL/RA/CP-102419; TRN: US0004487
• Resource Relation: Conference: International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, Washington, DC (US), 11/13/2000--11/17/2000; Other Information: PBD: 20 Jul 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
REACTOR OPERATION
REACTOR SAFETY
REACTOR OPERATORS
HUMAN FACTORS