Overview
- Deals with numerical approaches to maintaining and improving nuclear power plant safety
- Improves human-machine interfaces to enhance the reliability of nuclear power plants
- Written by the world’s leading experts in the field of measurement control for nuclear energy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book introduces advanced methods of computational and information systems allowing readers to better understand the state-of-the-art design and implementation technology needed to maintain and enhance the safe operation of nuclear power plants. The subjects dealt with in the book are (i) Full digital instrumentation and control systems and human–machine interface technologies (ii) Risk monitoring methods for large and complex plants (iii) Condition monitors for plant components (iv) Virtual and augmented reality for nuclear power plants and (v) Software reliability verification and validation for nuclear power plants. The target readers of this book are Ph.D. students, researchers and engineers in the field of nuclear power engineering.
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Full Digital I&C and HMIT Systems
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Risk Monitor Methods for Large and Complex Plants
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Condition Monitors for Plant Components
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Editor: Hidekazu Yoshikawa, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University. Collaborations as the member of technical program committee, session chairs, etc. to the international conferences related with human-machine system researches: For the area of nuclear I&C and HMIT, he regularly attended ANS Topical Meeting series NPIC & HMIT (Penn State, Albuquerque, Knoxville, Las Vegas), ASME organized ICONE conference series (Brussels and Xi’an), and Korean Nuclear Society organized ISOFIC series (Chejudo and Taejon).
He also served as Technical Program Chair of NUTHOS-6 in 2004 in Nara, Japan. (NUTHOS series conference is related to reactor thermal-hydraulics and nuclear power plant operation).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants
Editors: Hidekazu Yoshikawa, Zhijian Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54610-8
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54609-2Published: 01 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56184-2Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54610-8Published: 20 March 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 322
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 158 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Energy, Control and Systems Theory, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Sustainable Development