An Approach to Incorporate the Operator Actions in the Simulation of Accident Sequences

The objective of the project is to develop a procedure validation system that is able to simulate the effect of operator actuations. This tool consists of the combination of a plant transient simulation code TRETA, a computerized procedure system COPMA-III, adapted for simulation and a software interface that provides the communication between COPMA-III and TRETA. During the first stage of the project three principal tasks have been carried out: the plant model for TRETA, the interpretation and computerization of the Emergency Operating Procedures (EOP), which was done concerning the steam line break as a pilot application, and the COPMA/TRETA connection and the definition of the communication protocol developed using the Software BUS data communication system.