October 2000 Contents Highlights

Armenia Bulgaria Czech Republic Hungary

Kazakhstan Lithuania Russia Slovakia

Ukraine United States Cross-Cutting Activities Planned Activities

Planned Activities

* Indicates the event is new or has changed in some way since the previous report was issued.

* November 6-15 -- Ignalina NPP, Lithuania

Training. A training specialist from Human Performance Analysis Corporation will work with training and technical specialists at Ignalina plant to adapt previously developed instructional materials for general employee safety training for implementation specific to Ignalina NPP. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* November 27-December 8 -- Kola NPP, Russia

Training. Representatives from VNIIAES, the Balakovo and Novovoronezh training centers, and participating Russian nuclear power plants will work with a U.S. team member from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and training specialists from Human Performance Analysis Corporation and Sonalysts, Inc., to begin transferring a simulator instructor training program to Kola NPP. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Al Ankrum, PNNL, 509-372-4095)

* December 4-8 -- Khmelnytskyy NPP, Ukraine

Management and Operations Safety. Staff from Khmelnytskyy NPP and EnergoAtom will conduct a comprehensive audit of the quality assurance program at Khmelnytskyy. Staff from most departments at Khmelnytskyy will support the audit by producing requested documents and participating in interviews. Plant managers will review the audit results and develop improvement plans to deal with any identified weaknesses. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4097)

* December 4-15 (Rescheduled from September) -- Kozloduy NPP, Bulgaria

Training. Specialists from VNIIAES and Sonalysts, Inc., will work with training and technical specialists from Kozloduy NPP to complete plans and instructional materials for a training program for emergency operating instruction trainers at the plant. During the session, the specialists will implement the course for trainers at Kozloduy Units 3 and 4 (both VVER-440/230 reactors). (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* December 6-7 -- Kyiv, Ukraine

Plant Safety Assessment. The Management Committee for Design Document System Management is tentatively scheduled to meet December 6 and 7 in Kyiv to develop a plan for implementing configuration management and design basis documentation at each Ukrainian VVER site. Representatives from the four VVER nuclear power plant sites (Khmelnytskyy, Rivne, South Ukraine, and Zaporizhzhya), EnergoAtom, the Nuclear Power Plant Operational Support Institute, Kyiv Energoproect, Kharkiv Energoproect, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will participate in the meeting. (Walt Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4097)

* December 5-6 -- Moscow, Russia

Management and Operational Safety. Representatives from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bechtel National, and Engineering, Planning, and Management, Incorporated, will meet with members of the working group for the Smolensk safe-shutdown analysis. Participants will discuss project task reports, safe-shutdown vulnerabilities identified by the project, and plans for future application of the analysis process to other nuclear power plants in Russia. Russian organizations expected at the meetings will be Atomenergoproekt, VNIIAES, Rosenergoatom, Gosatomnadzor, and Smolensk NPP. (Grigory Trosman, DOE, 301-903-6899; Andy Minister, PNNL, 509-376-6663)

* December 7-8 -- Moscow, Russia

Management and Operational Safety. VNIIAES will host "Fire Safety Analysis Methods at Russian NPPs" at VNIIAES facilities in Moscow. Representatives from each of the Russian nuclear power plants, Rosenergoatom, Gosatomnadzor, and other Russian organizations with an interest in fire protection at the nuclear power plants are expected to attend the workshop. The results of the Smolensk safe-shutdown analysis project will be presented. In addition, representatives from the nuclear power plants will give presentations on the fire safety issues at their plants. (Grigory Trosman, DOE, 301-903-6899; Andy Minister, PNNL, 509-376-6663)

December 11-15 -- Moscow, Russia

Management and Operational Safety. VNIIAES will host a second workshop focused on the normative document for simulator standards and training in Russia. Representatives of VNIIAES/General Energy Technologies; Rosenergoatom; Gosatomnadzor; the Novovoronezh Training Center; and Balakovo, Kursk, and Novovoronezh NPPs are expected to participate. A U.S. team member from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also will attend. Participants plan to finalize a draft of the document during the workshop, then submit it to Gosatomnadzor for consideration. Gosatomnadzor approval is targeted for early 2001. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Ken Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4063)

* January 2001 (Rescheduled from September) -- Kyiv, Ukraine

Training. Work will begin on a project to transfer a pilot training program for control room turbine operators to Rivne, South Ukraine, and Zaporizhzhya NPPs. Specialists from the Khmelnytskyy plant, the Engineering and Technical Center for the Training of Nuclear Industry Personnel, and Sonalysts, Inc., will provide technical assistance. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* February 2001 -- Kozloduy NPP, Bulgaria

Training. Specialists from VNIIAES and Sonalysts, Inc., will work with training and technical specialists from Kozloduy NPP to complete plans and instructional materials for a training program for emergency operating instruction trainers at the plant. During the session, the specialists will implement the course for trainers at Kozloduy Units 1 and 2 (both VVER-440/230 reactors). (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)