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ANS
1. Standard ANSI/ANS-2.15-2013, “Criteria
for Modeling and CalculatingAtmospheric
Transport of Routine Releases from
Nuclear Facilities”.
2. Standard ANSI/ANS-2.21-2012, “Criteria
for Assessing Atmospheric Effects on the
Ultimate Heat Sink”.
3. Standard
ANSI/ANS-3.2-2012,
“Managerial, Administrative and
quality Assurance Controls for the
Operational Phase of Nuclear Power
Plants”.
4. Standard
ANSI/ANS-3.4-2013,
“Medical
Certification
and
Monitoring of Personnel Requiring
Operator Licenses for Nuclear Power
Plants”.
5. Standard ANSI/ANS-15.21-2012,
“Format and Content for Safety
Analysis Reports for Research
Reactors”.
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details on the above standards.
NEA
1. New Report on the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Accident: OECD/
NEA Response and Lessons Learnt.
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
(NEA) has just published a report on
the actions taken by the NEA member
countries and standing technical
committees in response to the March
2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant.
The report outlines international
efforts to strengthen nuclear regulation,
safety, research and radiological
protection in the post-Fukushima context.
It also highlights keymessages and lessons
learnt, notably as related to assurance of
safety, shared responsibilities, human
and organisational factors, defence-
in-depth,
stakeholder
engagement,
crisis communication and emergency
preparedness.
Contact: Cynthia Gannon-Picot,
telephone: 33 1 45 24 10 10, email:
EPRI
1.
Methods and Tools for Evaluating
Digital Control SystemArchitectures
.
Product ID: 3002000537. Published
July, 2013.
This report is intended to be useful
to engineers who need to evaluate
alternative I&C architectures. It is also
intended to support ongoing efforts
to identify architecture characteristics
that will help to achieve the stringent
dependability and safety goals of nuclear
plants, while providing a high level of
assurance of acceptance by regulatory
bodies in multiple countries.
2.
Materials Reliability Program:
Background of Reactor Vessel
Material Surveillance Programs
and Recommended Data Validation
Protocol
for
the
Radiation
Embrittlement
Archive
Project
(REAP) Database (MRP-369).
Product ID: 3002000651. Published
July, 2013.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) staff is currently
developing an updated, comprehensive
reactor vessel surveillance database as
a replacement for the Power Reactor
Embrittlement Database Version 3
(PR-EDB). The new database—called
“Radiation
Embrittlement
Archive
Project,” or REAP—will be available to
the public via the Internet. The REAP
database contains essential information
on the materials and test results from
surveillance capsules in U.S. plants; these
data were compiled in raw form for future
use. Eventually, the database may be
used for development of embrittlement
trend curves (ETCs), which are used
for prediction of reactor pressure vessel
(RPV) embrittlement due to neutron
irradiation.
3.
Initial Requirements for Wireless
Sensors in Power Plant Applications
.
Product ID: 3002001928. Published
September, 2013.
This EPRI technical update report
is a product of an effort to examine the
suitability of certain wireless technology
for deployment in a power plant
environment. Specifically, the report
details some of the initial processes
involved in gathering requirements for
wireless sensors, and presents some
initial results.
4.
Nuclear Maintenance Applications
Center: Maintenance Work Package
Planning Guidance
. Product ID:
3002000966. Published September,
2013.
The work management process is one
of the core business processes outlined
within the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
Standard Nuclear Performance Model
for operation and maintenance of nuclear
power plants. The preparation of work
packages is a key element of this overall
process. The purpose of this report is
to provide guidance to power plant
personnel regarding work package quality
as a supplement to Institute of Nuclear
Power Operations (INPO) AP-928, Work
Management Process Description. The
report provides a consistent approach for
work package quality that includes the
development of work package standards,
work package format, determining
an appropriate level of detail, and
implementing work package feedback to
ensure that standards are being met.
5.
Atomistic Simulations of Hydrogen
Effects in Channel Materials
.
Product ID: 3002001839. Published
September, 2013.
This EPRI product documents
work undertaken under the auspices of
the Channel Distortion Program within
the Fuel Reliability Program to develop
detailed insights into the physical
phenomena that underlie channel
distortion, through the use of atomistic
simulations based on first-principles
quantum mechanics and statistical
mechanics.
The above EPRI documents may be
ordered by contacting the Order Center
at (800) 313-3774, Option 2, or email at
