FUELEM: A Microcomputer Program to Automatically Select Channels for Refuelling

Abstract

FUELEM is a computer program to assist the fuelling engineer at a CANDU reactor in the selection of channels for refuelling. The processing performed by the program should reduce the human time devoted to this task.FUELEM is easy to use and quite versatile. It takes a negligible amount of execution time on a microcomputer. It can easily be further customized to a user's specifications.The code is described and the algorithm and rules which it uses are explained. Examples of channel selections are given for illustration.