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IAEA conducts safety review of South Africa’s SAFARI-1
A team of nuclear safety experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency completed a five-day safety review of the SAFARI-1 reactor in Pelindaba, South Africa, focusing on aging management and continued safe operation of the 61-year-old 20-MW research reactor.
The IAEA team found that the SAFARI-1’s management and technical staff had a strong commitment to and involvement with the assessment but recommended that formal programs be established to address the aging reactor’s equipment.
Ahmad Osgouee, Jin Jiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 181 | Number 3 | March 2013 | Pages 493-506
Technical Papers | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-A15806
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In this paper, a new, robust control method based on a multimodel predictive control scheme is developed for steam generator level (SGL) control in nuclear power plants. For a multiramp power increase from low to full power, the proposed controller is capable of keeping the SGL within the admissible range by minimizing the level transients and improving the stability of the control loop. Simulation results and a general framework for systematically studying the SGL are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method by comparing the performance of the designed controller with that of a properly tuned conventional three-element proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the proposed controller is more robust than a conventional PID controller to steam flow disturbances caused by load variations.