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The virtual digital nuclear power plant: A modern tool for supporting the lifecycle of VVER-based nuclear power units

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The article describes the “Virtual Digital VVER-Based Nuclear Power Plant” computerized system comprising a totality of verified initial data (sets of input data for a model intended for describing the behavior of nuclear power plant (NPP) systems in design and emergency modes of their operation) and a unified system of new-generation computation codes intended for carrying out coordinated computation of the variety of physical processes in the reactor core and NPP equipment. Experiments with the demonstration version of the “Virtual Digital VVER-Based NPP” computerized system has shown that it is in principle possible to set up a unified system of computation codes in a common software environment for carrying out interconnected calculations of various physical phenomena at NPPs constructed according to the standard AES-2006 project. With the full-scale version of the “Virtual Digital VVER-Based NPP” computerized system put in operation, the concerned engineering, design, construction, and operating organizations will have access to all necessary information relating to the NPP power unit project throughout its entire lifecycle. The domestically developed commercial-grade software product set to operate as an independently operating application to the project will bring about additional competitive advantages in the modern market of nuclear power technologies.

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  1. All-Russian Research Institute for Nuclear Power Plants Operation, Ferganskaya ul. 25, Moscow, 109507, Russia

    G. V. Arkadov, A. E. Kroshilin, I. A. Parshikov, S. L. Solov’ev & A. V. Shishov

  2. General Energy Technologies, Ryazanskii pr. 22, korp. 2, Moscow, 109428, Russia

    A. P. Zhukavin

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  1. G. V. Arkadov
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  5. S. L. Solov’ev
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Correspondence to G. V. Arkadov.

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Original Russian Text © G.V. Arkadov, A.P. Zhukavin, A.E. Kroshilin, I.A. Parshikov, S.L. Solov’ev, A.V. Shishov, 2014, published in Teploenergetika.

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Arkadov, G.V., Zhukavin, A.P., Kroshilin, A.E. et al. The virtual digital nuclear power plant: A modern tool for supporting the lifecycle of VVER-based nuclear power units. Therm. Eng. 61, 697–705 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601514100012

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