Thesis Abstracts 2001

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Slowpoke Integrated Reactor Control and Instrumentation System (SIRCIS)

By: Lieutenant (Navy) Lloyd R. Cosby

Supervisor: Dr. L.G.I Bennett

Abstract

The Royal Military College of Canada is home to one of six remaining SLOWPOKE-2 nuclear reactors. The existing Mark II analog console for the reactor at RMC was installed in 1985 at the time of reactor commissioning. An effort to replace the aging analog console with a digital system was initiated in January 2000. This upgrade is known as the SLOWPOKE Integrated Reactor Control and Instrumentation System (SIRCIS). It is based entirely on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and software development packages.

SIRCIS was designed to monitor and display reactor parameters, control the neutron flux, and archive all pertinent data and status information. A huMan Machine Interface (MMI) was provided to facilitate operator interaction with the system. The software was written to Ontario Power Generation and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Software Engineering Standards (OASES), specifically the Category III standard for real-time process computing software. A hardware test rig was used to simulate the reactor and test the software.