Automatic reactor control system for transient operation
Abstract
Various programmatic considerations have delayed the upgrading of the TREAT reactor and the performance of the control system is not yet experimentally verified. The current schedule calls for the upgrading activities to occur last in the calendar year 1987. Detailed simulation results, coupled with earlier validation of individual components of the control strategy in TREAT, verify the performance of the algorithms. The control system operates within the safety envelope provided by a protection system designed to ensure reactor safety under conditions of spurious reactivity additions. The approach should be directly applicable to MMW systems, with appropriate accounting of temperature rate limitations of key components and of the inertia of the secondary system components.
- Publication:
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Transactions of the Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988snps.symp..583L
- Keywords:
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- Control Systems Design;
- Reactor Safety;
- Requirements;
- Space Power Reactors;
- Spacecraft Power Supplies;
- Algorithms;
- Antimissile Defense;
- Kinetic Equations;
- Mathematical Models;
- Space Weapons;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics