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Authors:
José Ródenas (1), Isidoro Zarza (1), Andrés Felipe (2), María Luisa Sánchez-Mayoral (2)
Full affilitation:
(1) Dpto. de Ingeniería Química y Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
(2) IBERINCO, Departamento de Generación Nuclear Av. de Burgos 8B, Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
Operators in nuclear facilities can receive high doses during some operations. An operator training application for simulating those operations will be very useful for reducing doses received by workers as well as minimising operation time. Recent advances in both hardware and software confirmed simulation computer codes as an excellent tool for a wide range of applications, including those on radiological protection and nuclear energy related practices. On this subject, a Virtual Reality application was developed jointly by IBERINCO and the Nuclear Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia to simulate refuelling operations in Nuclear Power Plants with the goal of operator training. An application of this type requires to know doses, both instantaneous and accumulated, at all times during operator training. Therefore, it is necessary to elaborate a database containing dose rates at every point in the plant. This database shall be based on Radiological Protection Surveillance data measured in the plant during previous operations. Different assumptions should be adopted in order to obtain consistent data. In this paper, the procedures developed to automatically obtain the desired dose database from selected input data for the operator training application are presented and analysed.
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