Simulation Technologies for Integrated Energy Systems Engineering and Operations

Abstract

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has recently received funding to explore integrated energy systems (IES) such as joint electricity-hydrogen production and the implications for control room operations of nuclear power plants (NPPs). Work is needed to identify how such a system would integrate with a nuclear power plant and how reactor operators would safely and reliably manage the integrated system during normal and abnormal conditions. INL is making use of simulation technologies to address both of these questions. The Human Systems Simulation Laboratory (HSSL) is adapting GSES’ Generic Pressurized Water Reactor (gPWR), a full-scale full-scope simulator, to model the extraction system of a joint electricity-hydrogen production NPP. Here we design and evaluate a preliminary human system interface (HSI) for the steam extraction system.