Design and testing of integrated circuits for reactor protection channels
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
Custom and semicustom application-specific integrated circuit design and testing methods are investigated for use in research and commercial nuclear reactor safety systems. The Electric Power Research Institute and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working together through a cooperative research and development agreement to apply modern technology to a nuclear reactor protection system. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate to the nuclear industry an alternative approach for new or upgrade reactor protection and safety system signal processing and voting logic. Motivation for this project stems from (1) the difficulty of proving that software-based protection systems are adequately reliable, (2) the obsolescence of the original equipment, and (3) the improved performance of digital processing. A demonstration model for protection system of PWR reactor has been designed and built.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 81044
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950564-1; ON: DE95013224; TRN: 95:016373
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. symposium on power plant dynamics, control and testing, Knoxville, TN (United States), 24-26 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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