October - December 2001 Contents Highlight

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Armenia

Development of safety related security projects continues at Armenia NPP

A specialist from PNNL traveled to Armenia in late October to continue development of physical security upgrade projects at Armenia nuclear power plant (NPP).

The main topic of discussion was the status of contracts for short-term and long-term upgrades. The short-term activities that were discussed include; 1) Supplying alarm and detection equipment for the extended part of the perimeter, through Russian vendor NIKIRET; 2) A transportation contract with Armenia NPP for equipment shipment from NIKIRET to the Armenia NPP site; 3) Procurement, installation, start up, and commissioning of a security system for the extended part of the perimeter; and 4) A request for proposal (RFP) that was sent out to three Armenian companies.

The long-term activity discussed was the scope of work for the integrated design task. It was agreed that the contract would be awarded on a competitive basis, and the integrated design will have to ensure seamless integration with the short-term upgrades to the service water system perimeter. (Andrei Glukhov, PNNL, 509-375-3961; Greg Trosman, NNSA, 561-734-8108)

Progress continues on the project to upgrade operations and administration procedures for the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant.

Two specialists from PNNL traveled to Armenia to discuss progress on the project to upgrade operations and administration procedures for the Armenia nuclear power plant (NPP). The PNNL representatives reviewed status with Armenia NPP and their contractor, Atom Service. Atom Service has submitted a writer's guide and several administrative procedures for the PNNL specialist's review. In addition to reviewing the project status, the next task in the project was discussed. It was decided that complete sets of procedures for five systems would be developed. These would be coupled with annunciator response procedures and emergency operating procedures already developed by TACIS. (Larry Sherfey, PNNL, 509-372-4080; Dennis Meyers, NNSA, 301-903-1418)

In-depth safety work at Armenia NPP continues: Guidelines for DBA analysis and BDBA analysis were discussed with Armenian staff

A representative of ANL and a technical consultant with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reviewed the guidelines for design basis accident (DBA) analysis, beyond design basis accident (BDBA) analysis, and for plant design and operation improvements. The meetings were held at the Nuclear Power Plant Research Institutes (VUJE) at Trnava, Slovakia on October 25 through 30 and November 29 through 30. The strategy is to obtain agreement among ANL, SAIC, and VUJE on the content of the draft guidelines and then to submit these to the Armenian experts to use as a starting point in developing their own versions which will incorporate plant-specific features.

These guidelines are almost ready to be finalized. The status of the data collection task for RELAP5 was discussed. The RELAP model, being developed at the VUJE workshop, was presented. The model is expected to be ready to calculate steady state conditions by January 2002. A representative from Data Systems & Solutions led a discussion of a draft guideline for safety system descriptions.

Following their meetings at VUJE, the U.S. representatives traveled to Armenia to discuss the development of the safety analysis report with the Armenian NPP staff. The project has committed to developing a production plan, a technical reference matrix, a list of relevant regulatory guides, and a revised format and content guide for the safety analysis report (SAR) based on those developed for Novovoronezh NPP. (Philip Pizzica, ANL, 630-252-4847; Walt Pasedag, NNSA, 301-903-3628)