Integration of CATHENA Thermal-Hydraulic Model with CANDU 6 Analytical Simulator Controller

This paper introduces a powerful design and analysis tool named SIMCAT, that is developed to support applications to license a CANDU nuclear reactor, refurbish projects, and support the existing CANDU stations. It consists of the CATHENA （Canadian Algorithm for Thermo-Hydraulic Network Analysis）, the control logics from C6SIM （CANDU 6 Analytical Simulator）, and a communication protocol, PVM （parallel virtual machine）. This is the first time that CATHENA has been successfully coupled directly with a program written in another language. The independence of CATHENA and the C6SIM controllers allows the development of both CATHENA and C6SIM controller to proceed independently.