Study on Power Control of Nuclear Reactors

A mathematical model of nuclear reactor was built based on numerical simulation, and subsequently PID and fuzzy-PID controls were simulated with the model, while advantages and disadvantages of the two control methods were analyzed. By integrating the two control strategies, a compound control mode was proposed for the nuclear reactor, in which case, the control can be switched between the above two methods. Results show that through integration of the two methods, the effects of power control are significantly optimized and improved in the aspects of response time, overshoot and robustness, etc.