November 2000 Contents Highlight

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 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 training specialists from Human Performance Analysis Corporation and Sonalysts, Inc., to begin transferring a simulator instructor training program to Kola NPP. A U.S. team member from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also will participate. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Al Ankrum, PNNL, 509-372-4095)

* November 27-December 8 – Armenia NPP, Armenia

Training. Armenia NPP training and technical specialists will continue collaboration with a U.S. specialist from Sonalysts, Inc., on transferring a training program for chemistry department shift supervisors to the plant. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* December 4-15 – Kozloduy NPP, Bulgaria

Training. Specialists from VNIIAES and Sonalysts, Inc., will work with training and technical specialists from Kozloduy NPP to continue developing a training program for emergency operating instruction trainers at Kozloduy. Work during this session will concentrate on instructional plans and materials specific to Kozloduy's Electroproduction 2 (EP2), which consists of Units 5 and 6, both with VVER-1000 reactors. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

December 5-6 – Moscow, Russia

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

* December 4-15 – Khmelnytskyy NPP Ukraine (rescheduled from December 7-15)

Management and Operational Safety. The quality assurance program at Khmelnytskyy NPP will undergo a comprehensive audit. Audit team members will include quality assurance personnel from Khmelnytskyy and specialists from EnergoAtom and the Nuclear Power Plant Operational Support Institute. The audit is designed to assess Khmelnytskyy NPP compliance with Ukrainian and international standards for quality assurance. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4097)

* December 6 – Kyiv, Ukraine (rescheduled from December 12)

Plant Safety Assessment. The management committee for Design Document System Management will review a draft plan to develop and implement configuration management and design basis documentation at Ukraine's four nuclear power plants with VVER reactors. Representatives of Khmelnytskyy, Rivne, South Ukraine, and Zaporizhzhya NPPs will participate with specialists from EnergoAtom, the Nuclear Power Plant Operational Support Institute, Kyiv Energoproject, and Kharkiv Energoproject. A U.S. team member from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also will attend. (Walt Pasedag, DOE, 301-903-3628; Lief Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4097)

* December 7-8 – Trnava, Slovakia

Simulators. Specialists from Slovakia's Nuclear Power Plant Research Institute (VUJE) and U.S. team members from the U.S. Department of Energy and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will review work under way to upgrade a full-scope training simulator at the Trnava training center. The simulator replicates Bohunice's Units 3 and 4, which are VVER-440/213 reactors. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Ken Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4063; Al Ankrum, PNNL, 509-372-4095)

December 7-8 – Moscow, Russia

Engineering and Technology. VNIIAES will host a workshop on fire safety analysis methods at Russian nuclear power plants. Representatives from each of the Russian plants, Rosenergoatom, the All-Russian Research Institute for Fire Protection (VNIIPO), Gosatomnadzor, and other Russian organizations with an interest in fire protection at the nuclear power plants are expected to attend the workshop. Representatives from countries supporting fire hazards analysis of the Soviet-designed nuclear power plants also have been invited to attend and participate. The results of the Smolensk safe-shutdown analysis project will be presented. In addition, representatives from the other 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

Simulators. VNIIAES will host and conduct a second workshop focused on the normative document for simulator standards and training in Russia. The workshop will include participants from VNIIAES, the Novovoronezh Training Center, and Balakovo, Kursk, and Novovoronezh NPPs. A specialist from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also will participate. The group will continue discussions on the development and format of a normative document for simulators, topics to be covered in normative simulator documents, and issues related to normative documents for full-scope and multifunctional simulators. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Ken Erickson, PNNL, 509-372-4063)

January 2001 – 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. Kozloduy training and technical specialists will implement pilot training programs for the plant's emergency operating instruction trainers. Trainers from both Kozloduy EP1 (Units 1 through 4, the VVER-440/230 reactors) and EP2 (Units 5 and 6, the VVER-1000 reactors) will participate in the course implementations. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

* February 12-14 – London, United Kingdom

Engineering and Technology; Plant Safety Assessment. U.S. and Russian specialists involved with the Smolensk safe-shutdown analysis will describe their work at the Fire & Safety 2001 conference in London. Ukrainian staff performing the Zaporizhzhya safe-shutdown analysis also will attend this international conference, which is hosted by Nuclear Engineering International. The theme of the 2001 event is "Fire Protection and Prevention at Nuclear Facilities." (Grigory Trosman, DOE, 301-903-6899; Andy Minister, PNNL, 509-376-6663)