March 2001 Contents Highlight

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Lithuania

General safety training material revised at Ignalina

A training specialist from the U.S. firm Human Performance Analysis Corp. visited Ignalina nuclear plant in mid-March to review materials developed by Ignalina technical and training specialists for use in general employee safety training. After the comments and feedback provided by the U.S. specialist are incorporated into the material, Ignalina trainers will begin using it in their revised General Employee Safety Training Program. (John Yoder, DOE, 301-903-5650; Don Draper, PNNL, 509-372-4079)

Ignalina SPDS progress reviewed

In mid-March, U.S. technical specialists from PNNL and Data Systems & Solutions met in Visaginas, Lithuania, with specialists from Western Services, Business Information Systems, and Ignalina nuclear power plant to discuss activities related to applications software development and hardware configuration at Ignalina. The objectives of the meetings were to discuss the current status of the safety parameter display system (SPDS) project and collect review comments to the design development document, discuss current issues, and establish a schedule for factory acceptance tests and site acceptance tests.

Except for the Gorbac computer from Russia, all SPDS computer equipment has been delivered to Lithuania. Most of the equipment resides in Western Services offices in Visaginas where the software development is taking place. The delivery of the Gorbac computer is on schedule. The Gorbac computer will be used to input data from the radiation monitoring system to the SPDS. Fiber-optic cables for the system will be purchased in Lithuania.

The Kurchatov Institute is developing a software package for core neutronics calculations and sub-criticality calculations. This task is on schedule and expected to be delivered to Ignalina nuclear plant in April 2001. (Grigory Trosman, NNSA, 301-903-3581; Ron Wright, PNNL, 509-372-4076)