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Title: Vermont Yankee simulator qualification: large-break LOCA

Abstract

Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC) has developed simulator benchmark capabilities for the Seabrook, Maine Yankee, and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VYNPS) simulators. The goal is to establish that each simulator has a satisfactory real-time response for different scenarios that will enhance operator training. Vermont Yankee purchased a full-scope plane simulator for the VYNPS, a four-unit boiling water reactor with a Mark-I containment. The following seven benchmark cases were selected by YAEC and VYNPC to supplement the Simulator Acceptance Test Program: (1) control rod swap; (2) partial reactor scram; (3) recirculation pump trip; (4) main steam isolation valve (MSIV) closure without scram, (5) main steamline break, (6) small-break loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA), and (7) large-break LOCA. Five simulator benchmark sessions have been completed. Each session identified simulator capabilities and limitations that needed correction. This paper discusses results from the latest large-break LOCA case.

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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6866849
Report Number(s):
CONF-8711195-
Journal ID: CODEN: TANSA; TRN: 88-033602
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 55; Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 15 Nov 1987
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; LOSS OF COOLANT; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; VERMONT YANKEE REACTOR; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR SIMULATORS; PRESSURE VESSELS; PRIMARY COOLANT CIRCUITS; R CODES; ACCIDENTS; ANALOG SYSTEMS; BWR TYPE REACTORS; COMPUTER CODES; CONTAINERS; COOLING SYSTEMS; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FLUID MECHANICS; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; MECHANICS; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS; REACTORS; SAFETY; SIMULATORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210100 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling Water Cooled

Citation Formats

Loomis, J N, and Fernandez, R T. Vermont Yankee simulator qualification: large-break LOCA. United States: N. p., 1987. Web.
Loomis, J N, & Fernandez, R T. Vermont Yankee simulator qualification: large-break LOCA. United States.
Loomis, J N, and Fernandez, R T. 1987. "Vermont Yankee simulator qualification: large-break LOCA". United States.
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title = {Vermont Yankee simulator qualification: large-break LOCA},
author = {Loomis, J N and Fernandez, R T},
abstractNote = {Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC) has developed simulator benchmark capabilities for the Seabrook, Maine Yankee, and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VYNPS) simulators. The goal is to establish that each simulator has a satisfactory real-time response for different scenarios that will enhance operator training. Vermont Yankee purchased a full-scope plane simulator for the VYNPS, a four-unit boiling water reactor with a Mark-I containment. The following seven benchmark cases were selected by YAEC and VYNPC to supplement the Simulator Acceptance Test Program: (1) control rod swap; (2) partial reactor scram; (3) recirculation pump trip; (4) main steam isolation valve (MSIV) closure without scram, (5) main steamline break, (6) small-break loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA), and (7) large-break LOCA. Five simulator benchmark sessions have been completed. Each session identified simulator capabilities and limitations that needed correction. This paper discusses results from the latest large-break LOCA case.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6866849}, journal = {Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States)},
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volume = 55,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987}
}

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