Improvements to the TRIGA Mark II instrumentation and the direct digital control by microprocessors

Two tendencies have been present in the maintenance of the TRIGA instrumentation: one was to renew only those parts that were deteriorating with age, thus ensuring the continuation of the satisfactory service in the original scope; the other was aimed at adding new features and possibly at changing the whole concept of the reactor control and instrumentation. Though the activities along both lines were not best coordinated at all times, the presently emerging result may be highly satisfactory. Besides the well maintained instrumentation in the original scope and concept, a digital data logging and control system is being installed, based on microprocessors, which should offer new level of flexibility and convenience to the operators and experimenters, without compromising either safety of reliability of the overall instrumentation and control system