A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy including diverting a selected portion of energy from a portion of a nuclear reactor system to an auxiliary thermal reservoir and, responsive to a shutdown event, supplying a portion of the diverted selected portion of energy to an energy conversion system of the nuclear reactor system.

A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy including diverting a selected portion of energy from a portion of a nuclear reactor system to an auxiliary thermal reservoir and, responsive to a shutdown event, supplying a portion of the diverted selected portion of energy to an energy conversion system of the nuclear reactor system.

The present disclosure may disclose a multi stage safety injection device and a passive safety injection system having the same, including a safety injection tank formed to contain coolant to be injected into a reactor vessel by a gravitational head of water when an accident occurs in which the pressure or water level of the reactor vessel is decreased, a pressure balance line connected to the reactor vessel and safety injection tank to form a pressure balance state between the reactor vessel and the safety injection tank, a safety injection line connected to a lower end portion of the safety injection tank and the reactor vessel to inject coolant to the reactor vessel in a pressure balance state between the reactor vessel and the safety injection tank, and a flow control line extended from the safety injection line to an inner portion of the safety injection tank, and provided with safety injection ports into which coolant is injected at predetermined heights, respectively, to reduce the flow rate of coolant injected into the reactor vessel step by step according to the water level reduction of the safety injection tank, in order to inject coolant to the reactor vessel at multi stages.

The present disclosure may disclose a multi stage safety injection device and a passive safety injection system having the same, including a safety injection tank formed to contain coolant to be injected into a reactor vessel by a gravitational head of water when an accident occurs in which the pressure or water level of the reactor vessel is decreased, a pressure balance line connected to the reactor vessel and safety injection tank to form a pressure balance state between the reactor vessel and the safety injection tank, a safety injection line connected to a lower end portion of the safety injection tank and the reactor vessel to inject coolant to the reactor vessel in a pressure balance state between the reactor vessel and the safety injection tank, and a flow control line extended from the safety injection line to an inner portion of the safety injection tank, and provided with safety injection ports into which coolant is injected at predetermined heights, respectively, to reduce the flow rate of coolant injected into the reactor vessel step by step according to the water level reduction of the safety injection tank, in order to inject coolant to the reactor vessel at multi stages.

Provided is an apparatus for evaluating a response time of a plant protection system. The apparatus includes: a classification module classifying a design process related to a response time requirement of each channel performing a safety function into four operations of a safety analysis operation, a system design operation, a response time analysis operation, and a response time test operation; and an integrated evaluation module determining whether a response time evaluation is proper based on a time t1 derived in the safety analysis operation, a time t2 derived in the system design operation, a time t3 derived in the response time analysis operation, and a time t4 derived in the response time test operation.

Provided is an apparatus for evaluating a response time of a plant protection system. The apparatus includes: a classification module classifying a design process related to a response time requirement of each channel performing a safety function into four operations of a safety analysis operation, a system design operation, a response time analysis operation, and a response time test operation; and an integrated evaluation module determining whether a response time evaluation is proper based on a time t1 derived in the safety analysis operation, a time t2 derived in the system design operation, a time t3 derived in the response time analysis operation, and a time t4 derived in the response time test operation.

The present invention relates to an abnormal driving state determination device using a neural network model, and the device can comprise: an abnormal driving state data generation unit for generating abnormal driving state data on the basis of information related to an abnormal driving state; an abnormal driving state learning unit which receives the abnormal driving state data so as to visualize the abnormal driving state data through a visualization algorithm, thereby allowing the abnormal driving state data to be learned by a neural network model; and an abnormal driving state determination unit including the neural network model for determining an abnormal state on the basis of the learned abnormal driving state data.

The present invention relates to an abnormal driving state determination device using a neural network model, and the device can comprise: an abnormal driving state data generation unit for generating abnormal driving state data on the basis of information related to an abnormal driving state; an abnormal driving state learning unit which receives the abnormal driving state data so as to visualize the abnormal driving state data through a visualization algorithm, thereby allowing the abnormal driving state data to be learned by a neural network model; and an abnormal driving state determination unit including the neural network model for determining an abnormal state on the basis of the learned abnormal driving state data.

The present invention provides a method for early warning of an abnormality sign of a device, which includes device importance and warning validity determination, and a system therefor. The method for early warning of the abnormality sign of the device comprises: a first step of determining by an early warning processing apparatus whether a device monitoring signal value exceeds a normal operation range by using a weight value on the basis of monitoring-parameter-specific importance data which has been previously analyzed by an operator; a second step of generating a warning by the early warning processing apparatus when the device monitoring signal value exceeds the normal operation range; and a third step of determining by a warning determination apparatus whether the generated warning is a valid warning, which is subject to a warning analysis and to be traced.

The present invention provides a method for early warning of an abnormality sign of a device, which includes device importance and warning validity determination, and a system therefor. The method for early warning of the abnormality sign of the device comprises: a first step of determining by an early warning processing apparatus whether a device monitoring signal value exceeds a normal operation range by using a weight value on the basis of monitoring-parameter-specific importance data which has been previously analyzed by an operator; a second step of generating a warning by the early warning processing apparatus when the device monitoring signal value exceeds the normal operation range; and a third step of determining by a warning determination apparatus whether the generated warning is a valid warning, which is subject to a warning analysis and to be traced.