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NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SIMULATORS FOR EDUCATION
Computer-based tools are becoming standard components of training programmes. In the nuclear industry, important strides have been taken in recent years to provide a wider range of education and training services based on the use of nuclear reactor simulators for education.
To assist Member States in nuclear education and training, the Agency sponsors the development of nuclear reactor simulators for education which operate on personal computers and which simulate responses of a number of reactor types to various conditions.
The simulators are designed to provide insight and understanding of the general design and
operational characteristics of various power reactor systems.
They are not full scope simulators for operator training, nor
are they for detailed design or safety analyses.
However, they do provide the general response
characteristics of HWRs and PWRs, and have very
illustrative screens to provide the plant response information in a very
interesting way helping to motivate students to learn about nuclear power plants.
The Agency arranges for the supply or development of such simulation programs and training material, sponsors training courses and workshops, and distributes documentation and the simulators.
Since 1997, fourteen workshops have been held, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Korea, Italy, USA and at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Training has been given, and reactor simulators have been distributed to more than 260 participants from close to 50 countries, for educational purposes. The workshops are currently an annual activity sponsored by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.
Six different NPP Simulators are available for distribution covering different types of reactors, including pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors and heavy water reactors.
The simulator manuals can be downloaded from here
- Advanced PWR Manual
- Advanced BWR Manual
- 2-loop PWR (PCTRAN) Manual
- CANDU-9 Manual
- ACR-700 Manual
- WWER-1000 Manual
In order to obtain the simulation programs please download the acknowledgment for the simulator. The completed form should be sent to the competent official authority (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Atomic Energy Authority, or to the applicant’s Member State Permanent Mission to the IAEA in Vienna, Austria) for transmission to Ms. S. Bilbao, the International Atomic Energy Agency, P.O. Box 100, Vienna International Centre, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.
The application of the simulation programs is limited to
providing general response characteristic of selected types of power reactor
systems and they are not intended to be used for plant-specific purposes such as
design, safety evaluation, licensing or operator training.
Feedback on the use of these simulators would be appreciated
and should be sent to
Ms. Sama Bilbao y Leon, S.Bilbao@iaea.org
Workshop on Nuclear Power Plant Simulators for Education
The next Workshop will be held from 12 October to 23 October 2009 at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.
Contact: Mr. Andrey Pryakhin.