Application of Industrial Digital Twins in Nuclear Power Plant

Abstract Industrial digital twins have become popular in China and around the world in various fields in the past a few years. The application of industrial digital twins in nuclear power plants is to be researched in this paper. This article mainly summarizes the concept of industrial digital twin and its application status; sets up an application system of industrial digital twin in nuclear power plants, including the overall framework and application mode; introduces some typical application of digital twins in nuclear power plants; explores the expectation, challenges of the application of digital twins in the development of future intelligent nuclear power plant.