Vapor-dynamic cooling systems for nuclear power plants

Systems Design for Nuclear Power Plants

Technological Advance in Cooling Systems at U.S. Power Plants

Dynamic Reliability Modeling of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants

Two dynamic methodologies, dynamic flowgraph methodology (DFM) and the Markov/cellto cell mapping technique (CCMT), are implemented on the benchmark digital feedwater control system (DFWCS) specified in NUREG-6942 (Dynamic Reliability Modeling of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems for Nuclear Reactor Probabilistic Risk Assessments) [1], to demonstrate how an existing nuclear power plan...

The Robots for Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear energy becomes a major energy source worldwide even though the debating environmental and safety dispute. In order to cope with the issues related to the nuclear power plant, the uncertain human factors need to be minimized by automating the inspection and maintenance work done by human workers. The demands of robotic system in nuclear industry have been growing to ensure the safety of ...

Reliability of Passive Systems in Nuclear Power Plants

Following the IAEA definitions, [1], a passive component does not need any external input or energy to operate and it relies only upon natural physical laws (e.g. gravity, natural convection, conduction, etc.) and/or on inherent characteristics (properties of materials, internally stored energy, etc.) and/or ‘intelligent’ use of the energy that is inherently available in the system (e.g. decay ...