March 2000 Highlights

Armenia Bulgaria Czech Republic Hungary

Kazakhstan Lithuania Russia Slovakia

Ukraine United States Cross-Cutting Activities Planned Activities

Planned Activities

April 3-7 - Zaporizhzhya NPP, Ukraine
Simulators/Training. Zaporizhzhya NPP will host a training course on the validation and verification of simulators at nuclear power plants. Technical specialists from the Balakovo Training Center, VNIIAES, and Brookhaven National Laboratory will present the course. Three representatives each from the training centers at Rivne, South Ukraine, and Zaporizhzhya NPPs will participate, as will staff of the Engineering and Technical Center for the Training of Nuclear Industry Personnel and the Ukraine State Nuclear Regulatory Administration. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Joe Cleary, PNNL, 509-372-4079, Peter Kohut, BNL, 631-344-4982)

April 10-13 - 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 Zaporizhzhya NPP. Participants will include analysts from Kyiv Energoprojekt as well as technical specialists from EPM and Brookhaven and Pacific Northwest national laboratories. Participants will review comments on two reports documenting specific analysis tasks. They also will discuss the start of the deterministic and probabilistic analysis tasks. (Grigory Trosman, DOE, 301-903-3581; Andrew Minister, PNNL, 509-376-4938)

* April 10-14 - Kyiv, Ukraine
Plant Safety Assessment. The International Peer Review Service of the International Atomic Energy Agency will review the Level 1 internal events probabilistic risk assessment for Unit 1 of South Ukraine NPP. Review participants will include representatives of South Ukraine NPP, Energorisk, Ltd., the State Nuclear Regulatory Administration, SCIENTECH, Inc., and Argonne National Laboratory. (Walter Pasedag, DOE, 302-903-3628; Christian Kot, ANL, 630-252-6151)

* April 10-21 - Armenia NPP, Armenia
Training. A U.S. training expert from Sonalysts, Inc., will work with training and technical specialists at the plant site to develop a plant-specific training program for control room turbine operators. This, the first of three planned onsite working sessions, will focus on task analysis and initial development of training materials. The International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy jointly are providing support to transfer this training program to Armenia NPP. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* April 10-21 - Kozloduy NPP, Bulgaria
Training. Training specialists from Sonalysts, Inc., and Kozloduy NPP will continue their joint work to develop a program for training plant personnel on use of emergency operating instructions. Kozloduy technical personnel will provide their expertise on the operating instructions for the VVER-1000 reactors. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* April 11-13 - Kola NPP, Russia
Simulators and Training. The U.S. team will formally turn over the full-scope simulator for Kola Unit 4 to the plant. In addition, Kola NPP training staff will present a detailed demonstration of the training program they developed for the plant's reactor operators. Participants in the turnover and training demonstration are expected to include representatives of VNIIAES, General Energy Technologies, Rosenergoatom, Gosatomnadzor, Kola NPP, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Joe Cleary, PNNL, 509-372-4094)

April 25 - South Ukraine NPP, Ukraine
Engineering and Technology. The safety parameter display system for South Ukraine Unit 2 will undergo site acceptance testing. (Richard Reister, DOE, 301-903-0234; Rich Denning, PNNL, 614-424-7412; Frank Panisko, PNNL, 509-372-4472)

* April 26-28 - Kaunas, Lithuania
Plant Safety Assessment. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory will meet with counterparts at the Lithuanian Energy Institute to coordinate a proposed analysis of pipeline whipping resulting from a guillotine pipe break. The proposed analysis will support the Safety Analysis Report for Ignalina Unit 2. Meeting participants will discuss other safety analysis capability needs as well. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Mark Petri, ANL, 630-252-3719)

* April 27-30 - Armenia NPP, Armenia
Training. A training specialist from Human Performance Analysis Corporation will conduct a workshop for managerial and supervisory staff at Armenia NPP. The workshop, presented previously at nuclear power plants in Russia, Ukraine, and Bulgaria, covers basic management skills including communication, decision making, teamwork, motivation, human factors, and organizational structure. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* May tbd (rescheduled from March 17) - Zaporizhzhya NPP, Ukraine
Engineering and Technology. The U.S.-provided safety parameter display system for Zaporizhzhya Unit 3 will undergo site acceptance tests at the plant. (Richard Reister, DOE, 301-903-0234; Rich Denning, PNNL, 614-424-7412; Frank Panisko, PNNL, 509-372-4472)

* May tbd - South Ukraine NPP, Ukraine
Engineering and Technology. The U.S.-provided safety parameter display system for South Ukraine Unit 2 will undergo site acceptance tests at the plant. (Richard Reister, DOE, 301-903-0234; Rich Denning, PNNL, 614-424-7412; Frank Panisko, PNNL, 509-372-4472)

* Early May tbd - Armenia NPP, Armenia
Engineering and Technology. The U.S.-provided safety parameter display system for Armenia NPP will undergo site acceptance testing at the plant. Plant technical staff and representatives of U.S. contractors Science Applications International Corporation, Data Systems & Solutions, and Burns & Roe Enterprises, Inc., will participate in the testing. (Richard Reister, DOE, 301-903-0234; Rich Denning, PNNL, 614-424-7412; Frank Panisko, PNNL, 509-372-4472)

* May 8-12 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Argonne, Illinois, USA
Plant Safety Assessment. With U.S. support, a technical expert from the Lithuanian Energy Institute will attend PHYSOR 2000, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) international topical meeting, Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium. Following the ANS meeting, he will join U.S. team members from Argonne National Laboratory to plan pipeline whipping analyses for Ignalina NPP. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Mark Petri, ANL, 630-252-3719)

May 22-27 (tentative) - Kyiv and South Ukraine NPP, Ukraine
Management and Operational Safety. U.S. specialists will work with Ukrainian team members to prepare a plan for auditing radiation safety management at South Ukraine NPP. Representatives of South Ukraine NPP, Energoatom, the Nuclear Power Plant Operational Support Institute, SCIENTECH, Inc., and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will participate. The South Ukraine audit plan and resulting audit will provide a framework and field data from which a functional area performance guide can be developed for use at all nuclear power plants in Ukraine. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4097)

May 27-June 4 - Scholkino, Ukraine
Management and Operational Safety. Specialists from Ukraine's Crimea Scientific and Engineering Center and Zaporizhzhya NPP will present a training seminar on the application of procedures for event analysis and reporting. Additional personnel from Zaporizhzhya NPP will participate as trainees. The seminar seeks to provide a plant-wide understanding of procedures and improved practices for nuclear power plant event analysis and reporting to Energoatom. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4079)