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pick up on this technology, begin to
integrate it and move forward with it.
We are completing our efforts with this
technology this year, meaning by the end
of September 2016, but we’re planning
on another project that’s related to this
with the same lead researcher, Shawn St.
Germain, and it’s going to be an outage
risk management.
Now, this is a little bit different than
risk monitors. It’s not risk monitoring.
This has more to do with how do you
gather information about all the different
requirements that you need to manage in
real time during an outage, given all the
work that you’re executing and planning
and the way that things actually are
carried out. You plan work to be done in
a certain way. Things actually occur in
ways that are slightly different. There’s
new work that you identify or discover
that has to be performed. So, during
an outage, there’s over 10,000 work
activities that have to be accomplished
in a very limited period of time, and at
any given time, there’s the potential for
conflicts between technical specification,
safety requirements. Those have led
to a number of licensee event reports,
technical specification violations during
outages, even in the past year. We’re
looking at developing technologies that
would assist utilities with integrating that
picture into their outage management, to
not only see and observe how well they’re
staying on top of technical specification
management, but also to look ahead and
foresee any potential conflicts, so that
outages not only are done efficiently, but
to the extent that we can, think of ways
that we can improve upon outage safety.
3.
In how many years will the control
rooms have some special products, just
like an outage control center?
We are working with Arizona
Public Services and the Palo Verde
nuclear station, as well as with Exelon.
To help inform Exelon, so that they can
make decisions about what approaches
they want to take in terms of managing
their plants and making investments for
the long term. The project that I’ll be
presenting tomorrow shows a little bit
about what we’re doing with Palo Verde
and some idea of what sort of progress
you might expect to see in time, but I’d
like for Palo Verde to really speak about
how they plan to implement it.
4.
Provide me an update on the status
of Research & Development of the Main
Control Room project?
We have just hosted several crews of
operators to look at preliminary end state
visions of a redesign of control rooms
from one of our partner utilities at the
INL in our Human System Simulation
Laboratory. What we did there was we
took the 10 or so years of their long-
range planning for managing control
room technologies. We used that to
create 3D models of the control room,
both a CAD model as well as a CAVE
model, meaning an immersive model,
where you can step into it, in a high-
performance visualization environment.
We implemented it in a virtual control
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