A post trip operational guidance system for BWR plants

A post trip operational guidance system (PTOG) for BWR power plants was developed to support the operators in achieving safe plant shutdown after a scram. The objective of PTOG is to support the operators in collecting plant information, in diagnosing plant status and in deciding corrective actions. To achieve this objective, PTOG has three main functions, i.e., the diagnosis of plant subsystems performance, the identification of safety functions status and the dynamic synthesis of operating procedures. The main advantage of PTOG is that it provides operating procedures irrespective of the transient's initiating event and evolutional history. The results of verification and validation tests showed that PTOG was a useful, effective and trustworthy vehicle in coping with abnormal plant conditions.