June 2000 Highlight

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Ukraine United States Cross-Cutting Activities Planned Activities

Planned Activities

• June 28-July 7 — South Ukraine NPP, Ukraine
Management and Operational Safety. Personnel from Energoatom, the Nuclear Power Plant Operational Support Institute, and the quality and environmental laboratory departments of South Ukraine NPP will conduct an audit of environmental radiation monitoring at South Ukraine NPP. Audit results will be presented to plant management. The objectives of the audit are to provide auditing experience to South Ukraine NPP quality personnel and to encourage plant management and worker appreciation of the benefits of audits. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4097)

• July 9 — Kyiv, Ukraine
Plant Safety Assessment. Nuclear analysts from the Slavutych Laboratory for International Research and Technology and other Ukrainian technical organizations will participate with specialists from Khmelnytskyy, Rivne, South Ukraine, and Zaporizhzhya NPPs in a workshop at Kyiv State University. Instructors will provide hands-on training in the use of the safety analysis computer codes MELCOR and CONTAIN. The workshop is part of a U.S. team project to facilitate the development of safety analysis capability in Ukraine. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Igor Bodnar, ANL, 630-252-8336)

July 17-20 — Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Engineering and Technology. Specialists from Engineering Planning and Management Inc. (EPM) will host a progress meeting on the safe-shutdown analysis under way at Smolensk NPP. Participants will include analysts from VNIIAES, Atomenergoproekt, and Rosenergoatom, as well as technical specialists from EPM and Brookhaven and Pacific Northwest national laboratories. Participants will review comments on reports covering the probabilistic portion of the analysis and the recommendations for fire safety upgrades to correct identified deficiencies. They also will discuss completion of the project and implementation of corrective actions at the plant. (Grigory Trosman, DOE, 301-903-3581; Andrew Minister, PNNL, 509-376-4938)

• July 18-19 — Washington, D.C., USA
Program Management. The Ukraine Coordinating Committee for the Soviet-Designed Reactor Safety Program will hold its semiannual meeting. Members will determine priorities and funding allocations for projects in Ukraine in 2001 as well as resolve any major issues on projects already under way. Representatives of Energoatom, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory make up the coordinating committee. (Rich Reister, DOE, 301-903-0234; Bob Moffitt, PNNL, 509-372-4108)

• July 23 — Kyiv, Ukraine
Plant Safety Assessment. Participants from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Rivne NPP, and Argonne National Laboratory will meet to review progress on work to validate the RELAP5 computer code for application to VVER reactors. The status of the definition report for the standard problem based on a steam generator transient using plant data will be discussed, and a schedule will be developed to complete the definition and analysis of the standard problem. The exchange of standard problems with Bulgarian organizations also will be discussed and planned. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Jordi Roglans, ANL, 630-252-3283)

• July 23-24 — Kyiv, Ukraine
Plant Safety Assessment. A coordination meeting will be held to discuss progress in the VVER special transient analysis project. Representatives from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and Argonne National Laboratory will participate. The status of the RELAP5-3D model will be reviewed, and the connection from Kyiv to the Russian International Nuclear Safety Center computers to access RELAP5-3D will be tested. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Jordi Roglans, ANL, 630-252-3283)

• July 25-29 — Armenia Nuclear Power Plant, Armenia
Plant Safety Assessment. A representative from Argonne National Laboratory will meet with counterparts at Armenia NPP to organize a plant walkdown to evaluate seismic issues. The walkdown, scheduled for September 2000, will help determine whether key safety components meet seismic standards. The Argonne specialist also will discuss safety analysis capability needs with plant representatives. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Mark Petri, ANL, 630-252-3719)

• July 26-28 — Sofia, Bulgaria
Plant Safety Assessment. A coordination meeting will be held to initiate the participation of Bulgarian organizations in the RELAP5 code validation project for application to VVER reactors. Participants from the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Kozloduy NPP, and Argonne National Laboratory will attend the meeting. The detailed work plan to define and analyze a standard problem based on plant data will be developed. The exchange of standard problems with Ukrainian organizations also will be discussed and planned. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Jordi Roglans, ANL, 630-252-3283)

• July 26-28 — Sofia, Bulgaria
Plant Safety Assessment. Specialists from the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Kozloduy NPP, and Argonne National Laboratory will discuss the code assessment project for coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics codes. A work plan will be developed to define and analyze a benchmark problem in collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University based on plant data. Candidate benchmark problems will be reviewed. Potential sets of analysis for comparison of the results and the evaluation of point kinetics versus spatial kinetics will be discussed. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Jordi Roglans, ANL, 630-252-3283)

• August 8-10 — Visiginas, Lithuania
Engineering and Technology. Specialists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Data Systems & Solutions will meet with computer specialists from Ignalina NPP to develop the conformed specification for a safety parameter display system for Ignalina Unit 2. Participants will discuss how to interface the safety parameter display system with the integrated computer system that Data Systems & Solutions is installing in Unit 2. Because the integrated control system is funded by others, the cost of adding a safety parameter display system at Ignalina will be reduced significantly. (Grigory Trosman, DOE, 301-903-3581; Ron Wright, PNNL, 509-372-4076)

• August 21-28 — Scholkino, Ukraine
Management and Operational Safety. Ukraine’s Crimea
Scientific and Engineering Center will host a workshop to review results of the pilot implementation at Zaporizhzhya NPP of procedures for event analysis, reporting, and lessons learned. Workshop participants will include representatives of all nuclear power plants in Ukraine, Energoatom, the Crimea Center, and Novator-Kiev. The event analysis manager at Zaporizhzhya will report on the pilot implementation at the plant. Novator-Kiev specialists will describe experience with the event analysis database and reporting software they have developed. The Energoatom event analysis manager will report on Energoatom participation in the Zaporizhzhya pilot implementation and then lead discussions of planned activities to implement new procedures and databases at the remaining plant sites in Ukraine. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

September 11-15 — Argonne, Illinois, USA
Plant Safety Assessment. U.S. team members from Argonne National Laboratory will host a review meeting for the Khmelnytskyy in-depth safety assessment project. Participants will include project managers from Khmelnytskyy NPP and Kyiv Energoproekt, the plant’s technical support organization. They will discuss progress and future activities. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Charles Dickerman, ANL, 630-252-4622)

September 27-29 — Slavutych, Ukraine
Chornobyl Initiatives. The International Chornobyl Center will convene its fourth annual conference to facilitate the exchange of information on international scientific and technical activities at Chornobyl. The conference program will include plenary and workshop sessions and technical tours of Chornobyl NPP and the Unit 4 Shelter. Conference organizers are seeking speakers to give presentations at the conference. (Riaz Awan, DOE, 38-050-257-7221; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079) ?