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100% touchscreen nuke control room - improvement or abomination?
Nauris:
--- Quote from: AlbertL on August 17, 2021, 03:39:14 am ---m98 - Where are those plants located - in Germany? When were they built?
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Apperently they are
1. Nuscale
2. Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant with chinese digital control (2018)
3. Akademik Lomonosov the floating russian 2x32 MW power plant build in 2010
4. Control room for ArcelorMittal Bremen steel plant energy distribution (2019)
AlbertL:
Because no new nuclear plants are being built in the US, I expect that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will never be asked to approve a touchscreen control room, simply due to the absence of any requests to do so. Whether they would approve one if requested, and what investigations they would make in the process, is an interesting question. Note that the room in the original post is a simulator of a simulator; the "official" simulator is required to be a precise replica of the operational control room.
Ground_Loop:
I spent a few years running nuclear reactors that had no digital controls, not even a seven segment display. In fact, the only integrated circuits I knew of were in the square root calculators for steam flow, but they were analog as well. Anyway, I always though a digital display system would be really helpful, but only for display. The control inputs should remain actual hardware devices. Touch screen inputs for something like changing views would be ok. But I can't imagine adjusting rod height or switching pumps with a screen icon. The big switch is mandatory, especially during a startup.
djacobow:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on August 17, 2021, 04:51:02 am ---Aren't touchscreens common in modern aircraft? The important controls still use physical knobs and switches, however.
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I think the fancier new panels in a lot of GA aircraft have touch-screen capabilities, but there are usually other controls (buttons, knobs) that access all the main functions. And the very most important of those are single-modal.
On airliners, I don't think there's much touch screens, but I could be wrong. For example, FMSs, which would be a natural place for a touch screen, almost universally have keypads. So do radio controls, etc.
Having flown some GA aircraft with touch-screen panels, I have to say I prefer knobs and buttons, particularly in turb.
Bud:
--- Quote from: Nauris on August 17, 2021, 08:23:18 am ---
--- Quote from: AlbertL on August 17, 2021, 03:39:14 am ---m98 - Where are those plants located - in Germany? When were they built?
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Apperently they are
1. Nuscale
2. Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant with chinese digital control (2018)
3. Akademik Lomonosov the floating russian 2x32 MW power plant build in 2010
4. Control room for ArcelorMittal Bremen steel plant energy distribution (2019)
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I do not see anybody touching the screens. Instead on each of the photos keyboards, joysticks, mice and knobs can be seen.
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