Under a recent grant from the US Department of Energy, NuScale Power is supplying replica training simulators of its small modular reactor (SMR) to three US universities – Oregon State University, the University of Idaho, and Texas A&M. Studsvik supplies the reactor core modeling software to NuScale. Core performance in the simulator is modeled by the Studsvik real-time training core product, S3R. The simulators are based on a NuScale plant design with 12 NuScale Power ModulesTM (NPM). The S3R implementation for NuScale differs from conventional LWRs in that multiple reactor core models are active in the same training unit. The multiple cores for the NPMs are a primary design benefit of the NuScale reactor system. Studsvik’s CASMO/SIMULATE software provides the cycle-specific core data that underlies the S3R software for each core module. When completed, the simulator facilities will be used for research, education, K-12 outreach and public advocacy regarding nuclear power and SMR technology. The simulators will facilitate research into human factors engineering, human-system interface design, advanced diagnostics, cyber security and plant control room automation.
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