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The development of training platform for CiADS using cave automatic virtual environment

  • Jin-Yang Li (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • Jun-Liang Du (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • Long Gu (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • You-Peng Zhang (Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University) ;
  • Xin Sheng (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) ;
  • Cong Lin (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • Yongquan Wang (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University)
  • Received : 2021.10.27
  • Accepted : 2023.03.31
  • Published : 2023.07.25
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Abstract

The project of China initiative Accelerator Driven Subcritical (CiADS) system has been started to construct in southeast China's Guangdong province since 2019, which is expected to be checked and accepted in the year 2025. In order to make the students in University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) better understand the main characteristic and the operation condition in the subcritical nuclear facility, the training platform for CiADS has been developed based on the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) in the Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMPCAS). The CAVE platform is a kind of non-head mounted virtual reality display system, which can provide the immersive experience and the alternative training platform to substitute the dangerous operation experiments with strong radioactivity. In this paper, the CAVE platform for the training scenarios in CiADS system has been presented with real-time simulation feature, where the required devices to generate the auditory and visual senses with the interactive mode have been detailed. Moreover, the three dimensional modeling database has been created for the different operation conditions, which can bring more freedom for the teachers to generate the appropriate training courses for the students. All the user-friendly features will offer a deep realistic impression to the students for the purpose of getting the required knowledge and experience without the large costs in the traditional experimental nuclear reactor.

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Acknowledgement

This work is jointly supported by the funds of "Study on high performance MOC method for subcritical reactor coupled with external sources under hybrid heterogeneous architecture" (E131351S), "Optimization design of fuel management and refueling scheme based on accelerator driven subcritical system" (E023351Y), "Multi-physics coupling analysis for accelerator driven subcritical system" (12122512), and "Research on the scheme and key technology of the offshore fixed multipurpose small lead cooled reactor with full automatic circulation" (2020YFB1902100).

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