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Academic and Industrial

Uses

of

PC Based Nuclear Power

Plant Simulators

Gill Grady

Sr Vice President

GSE Performance Solutions, Inc.

IAEA

Technical Meeting on Developing a Systematic Education and Training

Approach Using Personal Computer Based Simulators for Nuclear Power

Programmes

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• Explore Two Use Cases for

PC Based Nuclear

Simulators

• Generic Pressurized

Water Reactor

• Advanced Gas

Reactor Basic

Principles Simulator

• Describe the Simulators

• Use across a variety

Educational Institutions

• Use at Nuclear Utility

• Future Uses

TOPICS

IAEA Technical Meeting I3-TM-55124 May 17-19, 2017

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Multiple Configurations


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Description

• ANSI/ANS 3.5 Validated

Simulator

• Soft-panel Interface

• Visual and audible cues

when operating control

board equipment

• Global audible cues:

annunciator tones, relays

tripping and control rod

step counters

Generic Pressurized Water Reactor Sim (GPWR)


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Generic Pressurized Water Reactor Sim (GPWR)

PLANT SYSTEMS


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GPWR Simulated Plant Systems

• Aux Feedwater

• Aux Steam

• Air (plant & instrument)

• Condensate and Condenser

• Containment (Primary)

• Containment Spray

• Cooling Tower & Circ Water

• Diesel Generator and Auxiliaries

• Essential Services Cooling Water

• Electrical Distribution (AC & DC)

• Feedwater Heaters and Drains

• HVAC

• Main Steam

• Primary and Post Accident Sampling

• Reactor Neutronics

• Reactor Coolant

• Residual Heat Removal

• Safety Injection (ECCS)

• Steam Generators & Pressurizer


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GPWR MALFUNCTION TYPES

The GPWR accurately models normal, abnormal and emergency

operational parameters and responses including hundreds of

malfunctions dealing with:

• Loss of coolant

• Loss of instrument air

• Loss of feedwater

• Turbine trip

• Reactor trip

• Main steam line break

• Process instrumentation, alarms, and control system

failures


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GPWR EXTERNAL PARAMETERS

Provides to modify external parameters to show the

realistic impact of environmental conditions on plant

operations.

• Atmospheric Pressure Absolute

(PSIA)

• Lake Temperature

• Atmospheric Wetbulb

Temperature

• Atmospheric Temperature

• Atmospheric Wind Speed

• Atmospheric Wind Direction

• Grid Frequency

• Grid Voltage

• Switchyard Volt Setpoint

• Level Auxiliary Reservoir

• Level Main Reservoir


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• Instructor PowerPoint

presentations

• Student Guides:

– Student Objectives

– System Overview

– Major Components

– System Operation

– Instrumentation and Controls

– System Interrelations

– Procedures

– Design Criteria

– Industry Related Events

– System graphics

GPWR – Comprehensive Training Materials

• Simulator Exercise Guides:

– Exercise Overview

– Student Objectives

– Initial Plant Conditions

– Instructor Actions

– Expected Operator Actions


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Over 300 Plant Operating Procedures

that includes:

• Normal Operating Procedures

• Abnormal Operating Procedures

• Emergency Operating Procedures

(WOG EOPs)

• System Operating Procedures

• Annunciator Response

Procedures

• Surveillance Test Procedures

GPWR – Comprehensive Documentation

Plant Technical Data Curve Book

that includes:

• Reactivity Data Curves

• Fission Product Poisons

• Power Defect

• Tank Volume Curves

• Boron Control Nomographs

• Technical Specification Curves

• Turbine Generator Curves


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User Experiences

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• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission – USA

• University of Central Florida – USA

• Tennessee Valley Authority – USA

• Nagoya University (supplied by NEL) – Japan

• University of Manchester – UK

• Idaho National Laboratory –USA

• Ohio State University – USA

• Texas A&M University –USA

• Lockheed Martin Corporation – USA

• EDF Energy– UK

• City University Hong Kong

• Center for Advanced Engineering and Research – USA

• Chattanooga State Community College –USA

• Augusta Technical College – USA

• Penn State University –USA

• Virginia Tech University USA

• IFE – Halden, Norway

• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission – USA

• University of Central Florida – USA

• Tennessee Valley Authority – USA

• Nagoya University (supplied by NEL) – Japan

• University of Manchester – UK

• Idaho National Laboratory –USA

• Ohio State University – USA

• Texas A&M University –USA

• Lockheed Martin Corporation – USA

• EDF Energy– UK

• City University Hong Kong

• Center for Advanced Engineering and Research – USA

• Chattanooga State Community College –USA

• Augusta Technical College – USA

• Penn State University –USA

• Virginia Tech University USA

• IFE – Halden, Norway

GPWR User Community


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Undergraduate students for

introductory and fundamentals

of operations

Expanding use as a Laboratory

platform for students.

Undergraduate students for

introductory and fundamentals

of operations

Expanding use as a Laboratory

platform for students.

North Carolina State University

Use & Focus


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Use & Focus

� Undergraduate work

� Understanding of plant system

dynamic fundamentals and

performance

� Manipulate the plant systems using

the simulated plant logic and control

systems to gain a better understanding

of plant behavior.

� Operating procedures are used as case

studies

Texas A&M University


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Introduction to Nuclear

Facilities

Training Students to work at

Southern Nuclear

Vogtle NPP

Augusta Technical College

Basic PWR components and typical

flow including typical values for

various parameters

For students typically faced with

viewing the plant through time

dependent parameter plots, the

combination of such information with

control room instrumentation provides

an accelerated learning curve.


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CHATTANOOGA STATE COLLEGE

Fundamentals Training

Electrical Training

Turbine Training

Demonstrate

• reactivity changes,

• reactivity coefficients, and

• establish criticality.

• emergency system response to transients

Practice

• synchronizing the main generator to the grid

Discussing

• turbine controls in class and use the simulator to

reinforce those discussions


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Independent

VS

Integrated Operations

Providing a new way to interface

with the plant and improve

situational awareness

IFE and Human Factors


EDF’s Advanced Gas Reactor

Basic Principles Simulator (BPS)

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To PC Based Platform

Converted from Hard

Panel Simulator

EDF Energy – Advance Gas Reactor (AGR) Basic Principles

Simulator (BPS)


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• Reactor

• Primary Gas Circuit

• Boiler Circuit

• Turbine

• T2 Control Loop

• T1 Control Loop

• Gas Flow Control Loop

• Plant Protection System

Basic Principles Simulator Systems


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USES

• Overview of the major systems and control

philosophy. Graphical view vs control room

instrumentation.

• Reinforce the fundamental reactor theory and

plant system classroom sessions they have

covered e.g. startups and mode changes.

• Conduct of Operations (standards &

expectations).

• Control Room Management/teamwork.

• Technical Specification training (Operating

rules).

• Intro to site based simulator training.

EDF’s AGR - BPS


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Value:

• Understanding reactor fundamental operation cause and

effect.

• Learn coping strategies employed by the CCR operator when

presented with ever increasing amounts of information.

• Better equipped to recognize and cope with symptom based

scenarios.

• Human Factors team - short simulator appreciation sessions

built into the system engineers’ & technicians training.

Future:

• Systematically build more sophisticated models, such as

Turbine and Turbine Control

EDF’s AGR - BPS


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Academia’s Perspectives on

Future

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• Lab Exercises

–Reactor Systems Course

–Power Maneuvering,

–Control Rods

–Transients and Accidents

–Understand reactor

design in terms of safety

aspects

Future Uses


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• Advances Courses

– Prospective Operator Response to

Alarms, AOPs

– Reactor Components Course

• How parameters change as

components are manipulated

• Running pumps in various

combinations

• Pressure and temperature

variation as flow through HX

changes

• Electrical output as load is picked

up.

Future Uses


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• Beyond Nuclear Engineering program to

–Electrical Engineering,

–Mechanical Engineering Technology and

– Instrumentation and Control Technology

• Use of GPWR for Cyber security investigation and research

Future Uses Continued


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Vendor Perspectives on Future

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• Broaden the use beyond nuclear eng.

• Simplify the use

• Simplify the delivery

• Enhance modeling

Vendor Perspective on Future


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• Accelerate the learning curve for non-operational personnel

entering the workforce.

• This includes engineers, etc. The fact that entire plant

simulators can run on PCs expands the potential use of these

“digital twins” beyond operator training and exposes the

technology to a much broader audience.

• User interface environment that simplifies some of the plant

operations steps while still providing a comprehensive plant

response for better understanding of secondary and tertiary

effects of plant design and operational issues.

• Integrate RELAP5-HD and MAAP5

Vendor Perspective on Future


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On-Demand (Cloud-Based) Learning Platform

� On-Demand access to training content from the web

� Integration with LMS

� Training content customization by instructors

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