Study of visualized analysis platform for nuclear fuel cycle system based on multilevel flow model

Complex Nuclear Fuel Cycle (NFC) system faces many socio-technical issues that need to obtain the consensus between stake holders of different knowledge background. In this paper, a visualized analysis platform based on graphical functional modeling method, Multilevel Flow Model (MFM), was proposed to help those stake holders to recognize and analyze various socio-technical issues in NFC system. There are some new functions, such as 'Reaction Function', 'Switch Function' and 'Conversion Function', introduced to adapt new simulation tasks for NFC system. Based upon this methodology, a micro-process and a macro-process of NFC system were simulated and meanwhile some key analysis variables required by some analysis methods were deducted and displayed in the platform. And finally a simple simulation analysis was conducted based on the proposed MFM application. (author)