GUI BASED PRESSURIZER WATER REACTOR SIMULATOR USING PYTHON

Abstract

This Thesis consists on the pressurized water reactor (PWR) simulator by using python language. The main purpose of this thesis is educational simulator, there are required simplifications and assumptions complete in this models, which may not replicate any exact vendor‘s plan or performance. This thesis is write with the statement that the nuclear reactors, how it works and classification of nuclear reactor. But mainly focus on each and every individual components of pressurizer water reactor. The simulator model of PWR shown can be studied to understand the internal operation of PWR such as movement of control rod, variation of temperature and its effect on output power of the reactor. In this simulation model I have mainly concentrated on the effect of variation of temperature on the output power depending upon the movement of control rod. Assigning the movement of control to a program is difficult task. That is making a program to understand the mechanical motion of control rod has been typical. For this in the program the logic was given so that when control rod moves up the previous position gets completely deleted and if we again move the control rod up then then the previous increment of control rod gets deleted. The reverse process will be happening when we move the control rod down. We can say that understanding the motion of water, control rod and variation in temperature is affecting the output power and this can be clearly understood in this thesis. In future this work can be extended by introducing some other complex parameter such as stress or combination of complex parameters such as temperature and stress etc. introducing these things can make understanding of internal operation of PWR simulator more easier.