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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Zhe Dong, Miao Liu, Xiaojin Huang (Tsinghua Univ)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1425-1434
To balance IRE for deep penetration, it is necessary for nuclear power plants (NPPs) operates with enough flexibility. To realize the flexible operation, the automatic generation control (AGC) should be developed. In this paper, the adaptive AGC is proposed for SMR-based multimodular NPPs, which has a simple proportional-integral (PI) structure. The corresponding control system of multimodular NPPs with AGC function is also designed, which is constituted by the units of NSSS control, multimodular coordination, turbine speed governor (TSG) and AGC. The adaptive AGC method as well as the plant control system design with AGC function are then applied to two modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor plant HTR-PM. Numerical simulation results show that the newly-built multimodular control system can well stabilize the grid frequency by properly performing the power-level maneuver and maintenance of NSSS modules.
