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This paper provides a survey of modeling technology used in power plant training simulators, identifying the capability of existing models, and commenting on the areas where modeling advances are expected to occur.
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Foulke, L.R. (1987). The State of Mathematical Modeling for Power Plant Training Simulators. In: Heller, M.R. (eds) Nuclear Simulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83221-5_10
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