Modeling and simulation of advanced nuclear reactors

Advanced nuclear power plants are currently being proposed with a number of various designs. However, there is a lack of modeling and control strategies to deal with load following operations. This research investigates a possible modeling approach for advanced nuclear power plants in order to provide an assessment way to the concept designs. The modeling approach covers linear and nonlinear reactor modeling and linear modeling of heat exchanger-turbine-generator systems. Numerical results are presented on an example molten-salt type nuclear power plant system to demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the modeling approach.