Titlebook: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor; Colin Tucker Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Nuclear Power.Nuclear safety.Nuclear Power expl

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Watt Power?,Knowing your reactor’s power level is going to be essential; much as you need to know the speed of any car that you drive. In a car, the speedometer works by counting how many times the wheels go around, but how do you measure the power of your reactor?

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,You’ve Got to Do Something with All that Steam,I’m going to explain the ‘Secondary Circuit’—and how you use it to do something useful with the heat that you’re taking from the primary circuit. This chapter includes a fair bit of engineering, but you need to understand where all your steam is going.

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Putting a Spin on It,Back in Chap. ., I guided you through taking your PWR critical and raising power up to a few percent of full power. You’ll understand that the steam that your reactor is now producing is being ‘dumped’; you’re not doing anything useful with it… yet. In this chapter, you’re going to drive your reactor a bit harder and start generating electricity.

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Steady Power with Nothing to Do?,So, your reactor is running at full power. Temperatures are on target, and xenon has reached equilibrium. Your power station is producing more than 1200 MW of electricity; that’s about 3% of UK average demand. Just how quiet is it in the control room?

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,It’s All About Safety,If you ever find yourself interviewing staff to join your power station, you might want to try this question: “Is it Safe?”—Just that, nothing else.

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What Can Go Wrong (and What You Can Do About It),As an operator, you will have an essential role in controlling the plant, avoiding problems (if they can be avoided), responding to events and minimising their possible effects on the environment. This is why so much of your training is taken up with abnormal operations or ‘faults’.