Achieving New Nuclear

Configuration Management

Presented By:
Ken Barry - EPRI
Lloyd Hancock – LRH Consulting

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 EPRI Portfolio Spans the Entire
Electricity Sector

Generation Nuclear Power Power Delivery & Utilization Environment

 Advanced Coal Plants,  Advanced Nuclear  Transmission Lines and  Air Quality
Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Substations
 Global Climate Change
 Combustion Turbines  Chemistry, Low-Level Waste  Grid Operations and Planning
 Land and Groundwater
and Radiation Management
 Environmental Controls  Distribution
 Occupational Health and
 Equipment Reliability
 Generation Planning  Energy Utilization Safety
 Fuel Reliability
 Major Component Reliability  Cross Cutting Technologies  T&D Environmental Issues
 Instrumentation and Control
 Operations and Maintenance  Water and Ecosystems
 Material Degradation/Aging
 Renewables
 Nondestructive Evaluation
and Material Characterization
 Risk and Safety
Management
 Used Fuel and High-Level
Waste Management

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Advanced Nuclear Technology (ANT)
• New nuclear power plants must overcome a number of regulatory,
economic, technical, and social challenges prior to becoming a
reality
• Program efforts focused around:
– Facilitating standardization across the new fleet
– Transferring technology to new plant designs
– Ensuring top plant performance from start of operations
– Reduce overall deployment risk and uncertainty
– Supporting development of advanced nuclear plants and
associated strategic initiatives

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 Achieving New Nuclear Configuration
Management - Tasks
Information Handover Guide
• The Handover Guide published in December 2009 (1019221).
• Developing generic data requirements.
New Nuclear Plant XML Equipment Schemas
• Working with FIATECH, Hydraulic Institute, NIST and vendors to
conduct a pump procurement pilot to determine nuclear specific
fields.
Configuration Management
• CM For New Nuclear published in April 2011 (1022684).
QA for Design and Modeling Software and V&V for Quality
Software
• Quality Control of the 2D / 3D design and modeling software and
other associated databases and software in a commercial grade
dedication method prescribed by NQA-1

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How is the CM process impacted by
leveraging Automation?
Current Generation Nuclear Plants

Plant
Physical Plant
Documentation
Must Conform
As-built information must be accurately reflected on plant documentation.

Next Generation Nuclear Plants Virtual

Plant
Data Centric Plant
Physical Plant Automation Documentation
Must Conform
As-built information must be accurately entered into the Information
Repository which then produces plant documentation.

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 INFORMATION HANDOVER AND
INTEROPERABILITY
Design Procure Construct Startup Ops

VENDOR

EPC

Data
Exchanges OWNER/OPERATOR

SUPPLIERS

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DATA INTEROPERABILITY - What is ISO
15926?
A Global Common Model
Owner Owner/Operator
Requirements Data Repository

Vendor EPC
Exchange

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 EPRI DESIRED END RESULTS
• One source of controlled data with multiple attributes that
is consumed by multiple applications and changed from
one application.
• Data quality (graded) that can be confidently used by all
levels of applications by specified milestones.
• Data and Document Relationships that will build a design
basis taxonomy to support configuration control of
changes and operability determinations of the plant.
• Ability to manage as-designed, as-specified, as-built, and
as-tested configurations of the plant.
• Access to data and documents via the 2D and 3D Models
• Electronic Delivery of Compliant, “as-built” Information for
Smarter Operation and Maintenance

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EPRI Report 1022684

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 SUMMARY
• LEARNING FROM THE PAST
• CURRENT CONDITIONS
• GOING FORWARD
• CM LIFE CYCLE
• DEVELOPING THE CM PROGRAM
• CM TAXONOMY
• REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
• SSC INFORMATION REPOSITORY
• CM GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS

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 LEARNING FROM THE PAST
• CM WAS NOT INITIALLY FACTORED INTO THE
CURRENT GENERATION OF NUCLEAR PLANTS
• UTILITIES DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN REQUIREMENTS, CONFIGURATION
INFORMATION AND THE PHYSICAL PLANT
• CONFIGURATION INFORMATION WAS MOSTLY
DOCUMENT CENTRIC
• EXAMPLES OF CM DISCONNECTS BEGAN TO
APPEAR:
• IE BULLETIN 79-14
• SALEM ATWS TRIP BREAKER PROBLEM
• DAVIS BESSE LOSS OF FEEDWATER EVENT
• MILLSTONE – 10CFR50.54(F)

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 CURRENT CONDITIONS
• 10CFR52 INTRODUCES NEW CONCEPTS AND
TERMINOLOGY FOR NEW NUCLEAR FACILITIES
• CERTIFIED DESIGN
• DESIGN CONTROL DOCUMENTS (DCDS)
• COMBINED OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION
(COLA)
• ITAAC
• OWNER/OPERATORS MUST HAVE CM & QA
PROGRAM IN PLACE AT RECEIPT OF COL
• TECHNOLOGY HAS MOVED AHEAD
• INTEROPERABILITY
• VIRTUAL PLANT
• XML SCHEMAS
• WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT

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 GOING FORWARD

• CM PLANNING NEEDS TO BEGIN FROM TIME OF

FACILITY CONCEPTION
• THE OWNER/OPERATOR MUST “CHAMPION” CM BY
DEVELOPING A STRATEGY/PLAN TO DEFINE THE
PROGRAM
• CONFIGURATION INFORMATION NEEDS TO BE
COLLECTED AS SOON AS PRELIMINARY DESIGN
AND SITE STUDIES BEGIN
• REQUIREMENTS NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED AND
HOW/WHERE THEY ARE SATISFIED DOCUMENTED
• THE VIRTUAL PLANT CONCEPT NEEDS TO BE
ADDRESSED
• EXCELLENT TIME TO DEFINE AND DOCUMENT
MARGINS

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 VIRTUAL PLANT

A COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION MODEL

ENVIRONMENT FORMED BY COMPUTER
TECHNOLOGY CONSISTING OF 2D AND 3D
(DIMENSIONAL), 4D (TIME), 5D (COST), 6D
Design
Require-
ments (MATERIAL) MODELING ALONG WITH DATA,
DATABASES, AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
SOURCES.

Physical Facility
Config
Config Info

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CM Life Cycle Diagram

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 ESTABLISHING THE CM PROGRAM
• DEFINE THE CM PROGRAM SCOPE
• SSCS
• INFORMATION/DATA
• PROCESSES
• RESPONSIBILITIES AND INTERFACES
• DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY
• APPLY A GRADED APPROACH
• DEVELOP CM AWARENESS AND TRAINING
• INTEGRATE WITH CORRECTIVE ACTION
PROGRAM
• ESTABLISH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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CM TAXONOMY

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REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT

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SSC INFORMATION REPOSITORY

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 CM GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS
NIRMA/ANSI CM 1.0 INPO AP-929 IAEA Safety Report 65 EPRI TR-1022684 INPO AP-932
Applicability Existing Facilities Existing Facilities Primarily Existing Facilities New Builds New Builds
Associated with Advanced
Technology; i.e.,
Standardized basic CM
Similar to NIRMA/ANSI Limited to terms used in the Interoperability, Virtual Plant,
Terminology terminology across the Minimal definitions
CM 1.0 document XML Schemas, etc. and
industry
10CFR52 space; i.e., COLA,
DCD, COL, ITAAC, etc.
Describes CM Program
Guidance on Program Detailed guidance on setting Describes CM Program
CM Program Addressed as a process attributes & how to set up
Planning up Program attributes
program
Provides detailed process and
Graded Defined and mentioned, Defined and mentioned, Only mentioned in terms of
Approach
data-centric graded approach Not mentioned
but not described but not described information management
descriptions/examples
 Uses 3 ball model
 Detailed description of
equilibrium
 Uses 3 ball model  Adds Virtual Plant to 3 ball
restoration  Discusses 3D Model
 Establishes 3 ball  Detailed description of model
 Detailed Explanation  Describes data
model equilibrium restoration  Describes CM Life Cycle
Fundamentals of Design Basis integration and
 Addresses Equilibrium  Discusses Human from conception to
 Detailed explanation defining data
Restoration Factors and Knowledge decommissioning
of Design Margins relationships/ linkages
Management (KM)  Defines CM Taxonomy
 Plant Modification
Process Description/
Flowchart
Covered in Equilibrium
Called Facility Configuration Establishes SSC Information Described in terms of
Information Provides FCI guidance Restoration and Mod
Documents Repository and controls process flowchart
process
Covered in Equilibrium Detailed guidance on Included as CM Program
Requirements Described Restoration and Mod Described in detail identifying & managing Attribute and in process
process requirements flowchart
CM Discussed throughout, but not
Assessments
Discussed Not addressed Described in detail Not addressed
in a topical area
CM PIs & Mentions CM PIs &
Health Report
Detailed discussion of PIs Detailed discussion of PIs Not addressed in detail Not addressed
Health Report
CM Awareness Discussed in terms of Included as CM Program
& Training
Described in broad terms Not addressed Described in broad terms
Human Performance & KM Attribute

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