1 CONTENTS PLENARY SESSION PROGRAMME . 3 SECTION SESSION PROGRAMME SECTION 1. Safe and Effective Operation of Russian NPPs . 17 Subsection .1 .1 . .Operation, .Maintenance .and .Repair .of .NPPs .with .VVER, . RBMK, .BN .and .EGP-6 .Reactors . 18 Topical .area: .1 .1 .1 . .Operation .of .NPPs .with .VVER .Reactors . 18 Topical .area: .1 .1 .2 . .Operation .of .NPPs .with .RBMK, .BN .and .EGP-6 . Reactors . 31 Topical .area: .1 .1 .3 . .Maintenance, .Repair .and .Installation .of .NPP . Equipment . 42 Subsection .1 .2 . .Engineering .Support .to .NPP .Operations . 53 Topical .area: .1 .2 .1 . .Equipment .Life .Management .and .Nuclear .Power . Units .Lifetime .Extension . 53 Topical .area: .1 .2 .2 . .Operation .and .Upgrading .of .Electric .Equipment . and .I&C .Systems . 62 Topical .area: .1 .2 .3 . .Material .Science .and .Metal .Inspections . 78 Topical .area: .1 .2 .4 . .RW .Management, .Nuclear .Power .Units . Decommissioning .Including .Preparation .to .Decommissioning . 90 Topical .area: .1 .2 .5 . .SNF .Management . 108 Topical .area: .1 .2 .6 . .Fire .Safety . 116 Subsection .1 .3 . .Radiation .Safety, .NPP .Ecology, .Emergency .Preparedness . 144 Topical .area: .1 .3 .1 . .Radiation .Safety . 144 Topical .area: .1 .3 .2 . .NPP .Ecology . 149 Topical .area: .1 .3 .3 . .Emergency .Preparedness . .153 SECTION 2. Nuclear Power Development . 159 Subsection .2 .1 . .Advanced .Nuclear .Power .Unit .Designs . 160 Subsection .2 .2 . .Development .of .New .Nuclear .Power .Units . 167 Subsection .2 .3 . .Comissioning .of .New .Nuclear .Power .Plants . 181 SECTION 3. Nuclear Power Economics . 191 SECTION 4. International Cooperation Focused on Ensuring NPPs Safety . 203 SECTION 5. Human Resource for Nuclear Power . 213 Subsection .5 .1 . .Training .of .Young .Specialists .for .NPPs . 214 Subsection .5 .2 . .Use .of .Veterans’ .Experience .and .Expertise . .Tutorship . 220 2 PLENARY SESSION PROGRAMME 3 TODAY STATUS OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IN THE RF. LOOK INTO THE FUTURE THROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE PAST Petrov А.Yu. Rosenergoatom Concern JSC 1. ROSENERGOATOM TODAY: 1.1. Rosenergoatom today means 10 nuclear power plants in operation, 34 power units in commercial operation, three types of reactors; 1.2. Rosenergoatom role as a generating company in the world and in Russia; 1.3. Share of nuclear power in electric power generation through the regions in 2015. 2. DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS: 2.1. Lessons learned from Chernobyl accident; 2.2. Systems and equipment modernization to ensure safety, reliability and efficiency; 2.3. Keeping generating capacities of NPP through lifetime extension; 2.4. Programme for power output increase at NPP units in operation; 2.5. 6 new power units putting into operation; 2.6. Output, load factor; 2.7. Dynamics of faults at Russian NPPs; 2.8. Outages duration optimization; 2.9. RAW and SNF management; 2.10. Russian nuclear power plants readiness to beyond-design basis ac- cidents. 3. TODAY STATUS OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY 3.1. Organizational structure of Electric energy division of State Corporation ROSATOM. 3.2. Main strategic tasks: · unconditional priority of safety; · assuring protection of personnel, public and environment; · increase in electric power output and share of nuclear power genera- tion; · improvement of NPP operation efficiency; · development of international activities; · improvement of efficiency of NPP engineering and capital invest- ment into construction. 4. LOOK INTO THE FUTURE: 4.3. New power units commissioning: designs VVER-1200 (AES-2006), VVER-1500, and VVER-TOI. 4 4.4. Closing nuclear fuel cycle basing on power units of type BN-1200, VVER-TOI with MOX-fuel. 4.5. Implementation of projects for construction of NPP of small and medium capacity. 4.6. NPP units decommissioning. NUCLEAR POWER COMPLEX OF RUSSIA: SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY Asmolov V.G. Rosenergoatom Concern JSC To the requirements to large-scale nuclear power complex (NPC) of Russia are both traditional: · guaranteed safety · economic efficiency and systematic, ensuring its long-term staying in demand: · By the size of power generation the share of nuclear power in electric power market in the country should not be less than 30%. · By export potential the volume of nuclear power technologies export (when meeting the requirement of sensitive materials and technologies non- dissemination) should be comparable to the volume of its domestic use. · By the structure of power generation NPC should provide for the possibility to expand sales markets, i.e. to ensure thermal power generation for both electric power generation and “non-electric” applications: heating, water desalination, hydrogen and motor fuel manufacture, new technological appliances. · By raw material base NPC shouldn’t be limited for the historically sig- nificant period of time (hundreds of years). · By RAW management arrangement of the NPC fuel cycle should provide for safe and final isolation of RAW. Nuclear power development principles implementation makes for the exact objectives that can be put as follows: · in short-term prospect: - power capacity build-up to achieve NP share in overall electric power generation in the country by at least 25% by 2030 to create the invest- ment basis for development, - investigation of demands and ways of development of regional nuclear power industry on the basis of NPP with small and medium capacity reactors, - ensuring growth in nuclear technologies export at the level comparable to the one of the same technologies use inside the country, 5 - setup of basic elements of new technological platform of large-scale NPC for nuclear fuel cycle closing. · in long-term prospect: - setup and deployment of closed by Uranium and Plutonium large-scale NPC as a basis for power supply for Russia sustainable development in the third millennium. Thanks to the achieve by today results, Russia now has a high level of technological preparedness for ensuring innovative development of her nuclear power industry. The level of this preparedness is determined by the following parameters. By reactor technologies: · There was developed an evolutionary design AES-2006 with VVER 1200 reactor for mass construction of NPPs in short-term prospect. · At pilot operation level there were successfully demonstrated sodium cooled fast neutron reactors – BN-800 power unit is at the stage of com- missioning, there was started the programme of its 100% loading with MOX-fuel and its use for mastering pilot technologies of closed nuclear fuel cycle. · At various stages of completion there are developmental works for new de- signs of sodium cooled fast neutron reactors of high capacity, fast reactors with heavy metals, and some projects for small and medium size reactors. By closed nuclear fuel cycle technologies (NFC): · At industrial level there was demonstrated a technology of water chemi- cal treatment of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) of Uranium reactors, with Plutonium discharge and glassing of highly radioactive waste (RAW) (plant RT-1). · At pilot operation level there were demonstrated pellet and vibro- tech- nologies for mixed Uranium-Plutonium oxide fuel (MOX-fuel) of sodium cooled fast neutron reactors. · R&D works were started for development of alternative technologies of NP fuel cycle with fast reactors (nitride fuel, SNF reprocessing dry meth- ods, transmutation of minor actinides (MA) in fast reactors; elements of Uranium – Thorium cycle). · There are being considered the concepts of hybrid accelerating-manage- ment facilities and molten salt reactors for the purpose of long-life RAW burning-out. By technologies of nuclear power sources for “non-electric” applications: · At pilot operation level there was demonstrated the possibility to use sodium cooled fast reactors (BN) for water desalination (BN-350), and also thermal reactors for regional heat supply (Bilibino NPP). · At various stages of development there are technologies of power genera- tion for “non-electric” and mixed application, and projects on promising nuclear power facilities for these technologies implementation, includ- 6 ing facilities of transport and space energy complex, heat supply, water desalination, coal gasification, and hydrogen production. Basing on this status Russian nuclear industry shall now start its systemic development to achieve the set short-term and long-term goals – creation of double-component nuclear power complex with thermal and fast reactors operating in closed fuel cycle. NEW APPROACHES TO DESIGNING NUCLEAR POWER UNITS Ivanov Yu.A., Alenkov V.V. United Company NIAEP JSC – ASE JSC The important integral part of successful implementation of NPP con- struction project is effective project information management and data transfer in the required scope and format in-between the stages of NPP lifecycle. Information effective management under the project is achieved through organization of work of all participants to the project in common informational space ensuring data exchange between them, their interaction between themselves and with the project Customer, project management, processes of data management relating to equipment, procurement, sup- plies, Project documentation management, construction-and-erection and commissioning works. Works in common informational space (CIS) are based on NPP design informational model developed at the stages of design and engineering docu- mentation issue. All data under the project at power unit engineering and construction stages (including NPP 3D-models, documents, data bases) are gathered in unified system of project information management