SMR control room simulator launched at Texas AM University

摘要

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has installed the NuScale small modular reactor control room simulator at the Center for Advanced Small Modular and Micro Reactors (CASMR). TEES performs collaborative research through universities, national laboratories, and state and federal agencies with the goal of finding solutions to global technical challenges. The CASMR simulator will provide a hands-on opportunity to apply nuclear science and engineering principles through simulated, real-world nuclear power plant operation scenarios of a 12-unit SMR plant. It employs computer modeling and allows control room operators to input a set of parameters, run a variety of simulated scenarios, and observe the plant's response to the inputs. Each workstation allows a view of the status of any of the 12 units.