Nuclear reactor power control device

When occurrence of earthquakes is judged in a BWR type reactor, the power is decreased by inserting a portion of control rods, reducing a speed of recycling pumps, stopping recycling pumps, increasing the opening degree of a main steam control valve and opening a main steam relief valve. The reactor scram can be avoided by bypassing neutron flux high signal, settling a filter to neutron flux signals and setting a reactor scram set value by neutron flux signals, for example, to 120%. There is constituted an interlock for performing reactor scram when both of a neutron flux high signal and a signal outputted if a surface heat flux corresponding signal formed by applying calculation to the neutron flux high signal exceeds a set value are valid, to avoid unnecessary reactor scram. As a measuring means, not only an acceleration meter in the power plant, but also acceleration meters at remote places, acceleration meters or displacement meters for various kinds of equipments in the power plant are used, and when signals from them exceed set values, earthquake judgement is conducted. (N.H.)