somewhat realistic RBMK-1600 Nuclear Power Plant (my best reactor yet) v5.0

Instructions

STARTUP GUIDE + BUTTON GUIDE: (troubleshooting at the bottom, (safety systems and power even lower) WARNING: If the ¨Demand¨ display shows O2MN, O1MN, or O30S that means your offisite power will be cut in 2 minutes, 1 minute, and 30 seconds respectively, and if your turbine is not between 30-50 MW Gen Load it will trip or can´t provide power, your power will be restored when the OFFS dissapears and a demand is shown. Wait for the Reactor Period Display to show INF (reactor period is how many seconds it takes for reactor power to triple (more specifically how many seconds it will take for reactor period to increase by a factor of 2.7 with the current rate of change), INF means infinity and therefore reactor power isn't going up or down, negative reactor period is down) Turn off Shutdown Cooling in the bottom left Select the control rods you want to pull out with the brown circles in the bottom right, then click the "Raise" button to pull out the rods. (doesn't really matter which in this "sim" just chose any that aren't labeled AUTO. Watch how far the rods are pulled on the core display (the thing with all the 100%s, and watch the thermal MW rise Click on the small red box with an "A" inside (the one just up and left of the brown circle panel), these are the autocontrols, set the auto control rods to 1500 MW (just the number) As the thermal MW rises (starting above 100) the water level will begin to lower, use the feedwater to bring it back up, don't let the feedwater fall below -4 or there is a risk of meltdown (also the numbered panel below the feedwater switch is pump strength, click the panel to change it with feedwater on) once you reach 1500 TMW, check that everything is alright (mainly water level) then set the auto to 2150 TMW and raise to there once you reach 2150 TMW, stabilize the reactor and manage feedwater or engage automatic feedwater, then turn on the turbine MSIV (main steam inlet valve) Lower the steam bypass to 0%, and watch the RPM rise (if it doesn't check that the turbine MSIV is on and the TMW is above 2000 when RPM reaches 1700, set the bypass to 25%, you will see the synchroscope turn on Raise RPM slowly till you are within 10 RPM of 1800 RPM set the bypass to 50% to hold RPM, When you are within 10 RPM and the synchroscope is pointing up press the green SYNC button. Once you are synced to the grid, turn on the automatic bypass by pressing the red "A" under the bypass %, set the auto bypass to whatever the demand is (the lowest number in the 3 display stack above the synchroscope) you will see gen load start to rise, but then stop at 250, this is because the reactor is not hot enough, go back over to the rightmost 2 panels and set the automatic rods to 3000 and raise to there. Once you reach 3000 TMW check that the water level is still ok, you should have been managing it this entire time. Set the auto rod control to 4050 TMW and go to there, CONGRATS, YOU STARTED THE REACTOR (to continue running it see below) keep your auto bypass updated to be set to the current demand If your demand is under 1050 MW, set your TMW between 4000 and 4200 If your demand is between 1050 MW and 1350 MW, set your TMW to 4200 to 4500 Finally if your demand is above 1350 MW, set your TMW from 4500 to 4800 TROUBLESHOOTING (also reactor limitations) If you go above 4800 TMW then your feedwater auto turns off and your reactor can trip If your control rods suddenly insert, it means your reactor was automatically SCRAMed or A3-5ed (you can also press A3-5 to SCRAM the reactor) if your turbine RPM begins to drop rapidly and gen load is 0, then your turbine tripped, you can restart the turbine after the RPM hits 0 Power and Emergency Systems -LPCI, Runs off electricity, Add a lot of water and cools the core, if thermal power >2500 it wont work -RCIC, Runs off steam, Adds some water and cools the core, if thermal power <2000 it wont work -Offsite Power, Powers systems by using power from the grid, can fail on occasion -Onsite power, Powers systems by using the turbine or EDGs -EDG, emergency diesel generator, takes about 2 minutes to start then provides power to the plant -Turbine rolldown protection, if disabled allows turbine to generate electricity to power the plant until under 300 RPM, trips turbine when disabled as sync is lost -A3-5 Bypass, when active will not autoscram reactor for any reason -Shutdown cooling, when shutdown it keeps the reactor shutdown, requires power. -In a loss of power, Feedwater, MCP, Shutdown cooling, and LPCI capabilities (P.S. you can meltdown the reactor by getting the water level below -5)