System for monitoring power of nuclear reactor

• Main Authors: KANEMOTO SHIGERU, ENOMOTO MITSUHIRO, MIYAMOTO SHIHO, TAKEUCHI YUTAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.01.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PHYSICS

In a system for monitoring power of a nuclear reactor, a plurality of neutron flux measuring devices are arranged in a reactor core of the nuclear reactor for measuring neutron flux so as to generate neutron flux signals on the basis of the measured neutron flux. The neutron flux signals are filtered through a first weighting coefficient and a second weighting coefficient previously held in a monitoring signal calculating unit so as to generate stability monitoring signals. The first weighting coefficient corresponds to a fundamental mode of a neutron flux distribution in the reactor core and tire second weighting coefficient corresponds to a higher mode of the neutron flux distribution therein. The stability monitoring signal filtered through the first and second weighting coefficients are transmitted to a stability monitoring unit the stability monitoring unit monitors the stability of the core according to the transmitted stability monitoring signals.