SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING AN OPERATION OF ONE OR MORE AUTOMATED TOOLS WITHIN A NUCLEAR FACILITY

    公开(公告)号:US20240006086A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18469716

    申请日:2023-09-19

    申请人: ATS Corporation

    摘要: A system and a method for simulating an operation of one or more automated tools within a nuclear facility. The system includes a communication component to provide access to one or more computing devices, one or more local controllers for processing command requests from the one or more computing devices for the one or more automated tools, and a processor in communication with the communication component and the one or more local controllers. The local controllers may be programmable logic controllers. The method includes using the local controllers for processing command requests received from the computing devices to generate process values for the one or more automated tools, and operating a processor use the process values to animate a three-dimensional model and generate one or more views of the animation of the three-dimensional model to be displayed at one or more computing devices.

    CONTROL ROD DRIVE MECHANISM DIAGNOSTIC TOOL USING VOLTAGE AND CURRENT RECORDINGS

    公开(公告)号:US20220172853A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17434324

    申请日:2020-02-27

    IPC分类号: G21C17/00 G21C7/14 G01R19/00

    摘要: Disclosed is a diagnostic apparatus structured to be electrically connected with a coil stack of a drive mechanism of a control device of a nuclear reactor. The coil stack has a plurality of coils. The diagnostic apparatus includes a power supply and a controller including a processor and a memory that stores a number of routines including a number of instructions. When executed on the processor the instructions cause the diagnostic apparatus to apply to a coil a voltage that varies as a function of time, detect a current in the coil as a function of time, identify in the current a first inflection point and a second inflection point, and determine, based upon an electronic evaluation that includes the first inflection point and the second inflection point, that the coil is one of functioning properly and in a state of at least partial failure.

    Method for calculating a PCI margin associated with a loading pattern of a nuclear reactor, associated system, computer program and medium

    公开(公告)号:US11342088B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16312280

    申请日:2017-06-20

    申请人: FRAMATOME

    摘要: A method for calculating a PCI margin associated with a loading pattern of a nuclear reactor including a core into which fuel assemblies are loaded according to the loading pattern is implemented by an electronic system. The fuel assemblies include fuel rods each including fuel pellets of nuclear fuel and a cladding surrounding the pellets. This method includes calculating a reference principal PCI margin for a reference loading pattern of the fuel assemblies in the core; calculating a reference secondary PCI margin for the reference pattern; calculating a modified secondary PCI margin for a modified loading pattern of the fuel assemblies in the core, and calculating a modified principal PCI margin for the modified pattern, depending on a comparison of the modified secondary PCI margin with the reference secondary PCI margin.

    Diagnostic apparatus and diagnostic method for rotational angle sensor, and control apparatus for actuator

    公开(公告)号:US10712173B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US15758896

    申请日:2017-06-09

    发明人: Akira Kiyomura

    摘要: A diagnostic apparatus for a rotational angle sensor that outputs two correlated signals, corresponding to a rotational angle, determines whether or not a failure has occurred in the rotational angle sensor based on whether or not a numerical value obtained from the two correlated signals is within a predetermined range. Then, in a case in which the diagnostic apparatus for the rotational angle sensor determines that the failure has occurred in the rotational angle sensor, the diagnostic apparatus cancels the determination that the failure has occurred in the rotational angle sensor, when the numerical value is within the predetermined range and the rotational angle obtained from the two correlated signals is an angle that cannot be recognized to be 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270°.