Redundant Control Systems for TSTA

摘要

The Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) is a Los Alamos National Laboratory facility being constructed for the purpose of developing, demonstrating, and interfacing technologies required in the deuterium-tritium fuel cycle of future fusion reactor systems. The control of the facility is performed by the Master Data Acquisition and Control System (MDAC). The MDAC employs eight computers in a multi-redundant configuration ensuring both the safe and reliable operation of the facility and a high degree of system availability. To accomplish this task, MDAC is separated into two isolated branches, one designated as the process branch and the other as the safety branch. (ERA citation 06:029689)