摘要:
A detector signal-processing circuit comprises the following: a current/voltage conversion part that converts the current value of a neutron detector to a voltage value; a variable gain amplification part that performs amplification by a first-step variable gain using a D/A converter; a current level response-use resistance circuit that selects the measurement range in accordance with the voltage value; temperature measurement units for measuring the temperature of the resistance circuit for current level response; a temperature compensation part for commanding gain compensation by the D/A converter on the basis of the measured temperature; and a selective adjustment control part for selective control of the measurement range and adjustment of the variable gain of the variable gain amplification part. Due to this configuration, neutron flux can be measured with high precision while maintaining a constant output precision, before and after switching of the measurement range.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a nuclear reactor coolant pump that does not rely on an electric motor, but is operated by means of driving force generated inside a nuclear power plant, so a to be capable of maintaining the safety of the nuclear reactor when the nuclear reactor is operating normally and also in the event of an accident in the nuclear reactor. The nuclear reactor coolant pump comprises: a pump impeller rotatably installed in a first fluid passage of a nuclear reactor coolant system to circulate a first fluid inside the nuclear reactor coolant system; a drive unit receiving steam from a steam generator to generate driving force to rotate the pump impeller, and rotating about the same rotating shaft as the pump impeller to transfer the generated driving force to the pump impeller; and a steam supplying unit forming a passage between the steam generator and the drive unit to supply at least a portion of the steam released from the steam generator to the drive unit.
摘要:
There are provided a method of synthesizing axial power distributions of a nuclear reactor core using a neural network circuit and an in-core protection system (ICOPS) using the same, in which using the neural network circuit including an input layer, an output layer, and at least one hidden layer, each layer being configured with at least one node, each node of one layer being connected to nodes of the other layers, node-to-node connections being made with connection weights varied based on a learning result, optimum connection weights between the respective nodes constituting the neural network circuit are determined through learning based on various core design data applied to the design of a nuclear reactor core of a nuclear power plant, and axial power distributions of the nuclear reactor core are synthesized based on ex-core flux detector signals measured by ex-core neutron flux detectors during operation of a nuclear reactor, so that the initial time required to perform a start-up test of the nuclear reactor can be reduced since basic data for synthesizing axial power distributions need not be separately measured in the start-up test of the nuclear reactor contrary to a conventional ICOPS, thereby improving the economic efficiency of the nuclear power plant, and so that overall nuclear reactor core design data can be used rather than actual measurement data in the start-up test (i.e., at the beginning of a period of nuclear fuel), thereby more accurately replicating axial power distributions of the nuclear reactor core throughout the overall period of the nuclear fuel.
摘要:
An method for operating a nuclear power generation plant, comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of control rod patterns by operating a plurality of control rods during a first period of one operation cycle of a reactor including said first period before a point of time when all control rods are completely withdrawn from a core of said reactor and a core flow rate reaches firstly a set core flow rate, and a second period after said point of time, controlling stepwise at least once a temperature of feed water supplied to said reactor based on a different set feed water temperature during a period included in said first period for operating said reactor with a formed same control rod pattern, and continuing feed water temperature control based on said set feed water temperature until said core flow rate reaches a set core flow rate set based on said set feed water temperature.
摘要:
An emergency stop of a pressurized water reactor to be protected is triggered when the nuclear power (ET) thereof reaches an emergency stop limit (LP). The value of this limit is lower with lower operating temperatures (ST) of the reactor.
摘要:
The present invention obtains enthalpy rise deviations in core power distribution using core exit thermocouples 18 and an inlet temperature detector 20. The enthalpy rise deviations are used to determine control rod position change relative a rod reference position. Because rod position change is linear with respect to enthalpy deviation, the change can be determined from the slope using the deviation. By adding the change to a reference rod position the actual rod position can be determined.
摘要:
The redundant signals from the sensor assemblies measuring the process parameters of a nuclear reactor power supply are transmitted each in its turn to a protection system which operates to actuate the protection apparatus for signals indicating off-process conditions. Each sensor assembly includes a number of like sensors measuring the same parameters. The protection system has a number of separate protection units, each unit receiving the process signals from the like sensors of each assembly in its turn. The sets of process signals derived from the sensor parameter assemblies are each in its turn transmitted from the protection system to the control system which impresses control signals on the reactor or its components to counteract the tendency for conditions to drift off-normal status requiring operation of the protection system. A parameter signal selector is interposed between the protection system and the control system. This selector prevents a parameter signal of a set of signals, which differs from the other parameter signals of the set by more than twice the allowable variation of the sensors which produce the set, from passing to the control system. The connection between the protection units and the selector is four separate fiber optic channels so that electrical interaction between the protection units and the selector or control system is precluded. The selectors include a pair of signal selection units, one unit sending selected process signals to primary control channels and the other sending selected process signals to back-up control channels. Test signals are periodically impressed on a selected pair of a selected unit and control channels. When test signals are so impressed the selected control channel is disabled from transmitting control signals to the reactor and/or its associated components.
摘要:
A method is disclosed for rapidly and accurately generating an output signal corresponding to the power of a nuclear reactor core. The method comprises generating out of core neutron flux signals at different time intervals and utilizing predetermined relationships therebetween to adjust a more accurate thermal power signal which has a slow response to transient power conditions.
摘要:
A method and an apparatus for controlling feedwater flow to a steam generating device in a tripped condition of the steam generating device are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of arithmetically calculating a first forecast length of time required for the water level in the steam generating device to attain its desired normal operation level on the basis of the detected water level and the rate of variation of the water level when the detected water level in the steam generating device is lower than the desired normal operation level, the detected flow rate of feedwater is larger than that of the main steam, and the rate of water level variation is positive, arithmetically calculating a second forecast length of time required for the flow rate of feedwater to decrease to a predetermined flow rate on the basis of the detected feedwater flow rate, the detected main steam flow rate and a substantially constant rate of variation of the flow rate of feedwater when the detected feedwater flow rate is larger than the detected main steam flow rate, decreasing the level of the output signal of a ramp signal generator at a rate of variation corresponding to the substantially constant rate of feedwater flow rate variation when the time difference obtained by subtracting 1/2 of the second forecast length of time from the first forecast length of time becomes zero or negative, and selecting either the output signal of the water level controller for generating a control output signal on the basis of various input signals applied thereto including an input signal indicative of the flow rate of main steam, an input signal indicative of the flow rate of feedwater, and an input signal indicative of the water level in the steam generating device or the output signal of the ramp signal generator means, which has a lower value than the other, to deliver it as the feedwater flow rate demand signal, whereby the water level in the steam generating device is reliably stabilized at its normal operation level upon disappearance of the transient phenomenon appeared as a result of the trip.