The times of Nuclear Simulators · Control room stimulation DCS emulation Back-up panel ... Mitigation plan developed to enable Emulated I&C integration Plant System thermal hydraulic

ATOMS FOR THE FUTURE 2016 – Simulators and New Build Projects

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The times of Nuclear Simulators


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CORYS Overview

Revenues

R&D effort

Staff

35 M€

7% / year

220

36%

32%

22%

9% France

Americas

Europ, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)

Asia & Australia

2015

Activity fields

Zones Shareholders


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World leading company for

Nuclear power plant simulators

Customers

› Electrical Utilities

› Training centres

› System integrators

Fields

Power simulation

Corporate presentation


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History of Average Nuclear Reactor Construction Time

Source: IAEA « Nuclear Power Reactors in the World – Edition 2011

4

86 131 85 29 23 20 7


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1st concrete

2009 2010 2012 2012 2013

Civil Engineering works

Reactor Vessel

2014 2008

Commercial Operation

Electro-mechanical equipments

Commissioning tests

Total Construction Time : 52 months

Site preparatory works

DAC Authorization

TSN1 Original Construction Schedule


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The Training FSS and Plant Construction schedule

4W Sim

14 W /

4 W FSS

10 W /

4 W FSS

21 W /

8 W FSS

2 W /

1 W FSS

Challenging Time constraints issues All Operator Crews to be licenses before “Fuel Core Loading”

(Requirement from Regulatory Bodies in all countries)

One-Year minimum to train & license Operators on FSS

FSS to be “Ready for Training” on June 2012


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Taishan Full-Scope Training original schedule

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01/09/2009 31/07/2012

01/01/2010 01/01/2011 01/01/2012

26/11/2009 - 02/03/2010

General Design

06/04/2011 - 12/07/2011

Integration DCS Databases30/06/2012

RFT

02/03/2010 - 07/04/2011

Detailed Design and Developments

07/04/2011 - 30/12/2011

FSS Integration & Pre-FAT

01/09/2009

EOC

01/09/2009 - 25/11/2009

Project Set Up

05/06/2010 - 23/09/2011

Hardware Activities

25/01/2012 - 29/06/2012

FAT & SAT (Taishan)

29/10/2011 - 24/01/2012

Shipment & Erection

Design

Tuning &

PreFAT

TXS- Emulation

SPPA-T2000

Emulator

SICS

Dev/Int.

I.S.


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The « Dig through mounds » impossible objective ….

« Everquest Lanmark » an online sandbox where you can design

and build anything from your pickaxe

The studio initially announced it had “set out to make something

revolutionary”

Unfortunately, as they put together the pieces, they found that it

wasn’t fun

The game

never came

Online

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Taishan FSS project overview

Plant Process Models

DB

Simulation

INS

TR

UC

TO

R

STA

TIO

N

NSSS Containement CI / BOP ELX 3D Core NI

Project Main

characteristics

Contract Signing:

Dec ’2009

Customer: CNPEC

Advanced two-phase

flow modeling on

RCS/ECCS/CVCS/ Main

Steam and FW

256 plant systems

included in FSS scope

Control room stimulation

DCS emulation

Back-up panel

stimulation


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TSN FSS : who delivers what (simplified)

Yellow = CORYS

Red = ANP

Blue = SIEMENS

Purple = DEF


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A glimpse of the Complexity of FSS for new build

Simulation scope estimation

6,000 valves

400 pumps, 400 fans

700 motors, 500 breakers, 50 transformers

300 heat exchangers, 350 filters

300 tanks

13,000 alarms, 900 local commands

30,000 I&C objects

Plant parameter database

500,000 parameters

1,200 documents for initial delivery

4,000 documents / 100,000 pages foreseen

Multi-site FSS development

CORYS Grenoble

CORYS Beijing

Client site Taishan

AREVA SAS & GmbH

Data Package delivery

Initially scheduled through 5 separate batches

Finally followed up through 1 600 separate milestones

8-months average delay after 1-year of project …


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FSS situation overview

Mitigation plan developed to enable Emulated I&C integration

Plant System thermal hydraulic models developed and integrated, using a preliminary I&C simulated version – PreFAT completed since June 2012

Core Model is successfully Acceptance Tested

FSS/SPPA architecture developed and integrated .

Multiple FSS hardware configuration made available, on simulation and emulation platforms.

Years of V&V tests passed with RC1+ versions (90% simulated, 10% emulator)


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Number of Discrepancy reports solved

DR solved

DR open

Under correction

V&V phase

preFAT

Tuning phase


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Customer Benefits

Intimate scheduling of I&C design

and FSS activities

Validate I&C and SMD design along with

engineering development

Early validation of Operator Station HMI

Train future operators

Simulation for Nuclear projects – Recommendations

Reference

Plant

Simulator

V&V and

Pre-TRAINING

SIMULATORS

PLANT REPLICA

FULL-SCOPE

TRAINING

SIMULATORS

Stand-Alone

I&C

Verification

Mini

simulator

Engineering

Platforms


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CORYS simulation solutions before FSS

Operation, performance, HFE, Commissioning …

Process

model A

I&C

model A

Integrated

model A

Process

model B I&C

model B

Integrated

model B

Multi-system

Simulation platform

System A System B

Expert

tests

Reference

scenarios

Funct.

scenarios

Integration tests

« Closed loop » dyn tests

…

Data test

(coherence, completeness)

« open loop » dyn. tests

…

Expert

tests


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Overall Engineering sequence

Basic Design I&C diagrams

Process Function Diagrams (PFD)

Architect Engineer

DCS Vendor

Application software

F . A . T .

-

System Engineering

Design Manual

Integration tests

Software Detailed

Engineering

Software Basic

Engineering

I&C System

Engineering

Hardware Engineering Hardware Purchasing

and Manufacturing Hardware F . A . T .

Power plant Construction project

V&V on I&C

Functional

Diagrams

V&V on I&C

detailed

diagrams

V&V

in

Closed

Loop

Improvement Feed-Back into CAD system

Plant Systems

/ I&C

Integrated

Validation

I&C hardware

Test

Bench


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Taishan 1&2 EPR Project

Major Milestones

17

First Concrete

TS2 Nuclear Reactor

Engineering

created

2008 2013 2010 2012 2009 2011

Signature of

the Contract First

Concrete TS1

TS1

1st liner lifted

TS2

1st liner lifted

© Copyright TNPJVC

TS2:

Dome lifted

2014

TS1

Installation of

RPV internals

2016

TS1: Primary

loop welded

TS2: 1st SG

delivered

TS1:

Dome lifted

TS1:

RPV installed

TS1

CFT Successful

completion

2015

TS1:1st EDG

available

TS2: Primary

loop welded


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Taishan simulator projects status

First Simulator

First version installed

in July 2010, updated

twice afterwards

100 Operators,

supervised by 11

instructors, initially

training

80 scenarios , 12-

week program, 12 000

hours delivered

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Training FSS

RFT signed on Sept

27th 2014, then received

NNSA license

Successful completion

of RO examination in

Dec, ‘14

Successful completion

of SRO examination in

May, ‘15

2000 training drills

delivered, 21.5

hours/day, 7 days/wk

Engineering Simulator

March 2015 1st version

installed

June 2015, HFT NI I&C

upgrade

Dec 2015, CFT

procedures validation

June 2016, HFT NI

I&C upgrade


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Questions ?

Taishan Unit 1 Cold Functional Test (CFT) was successfully

completed on Jan. 27th, 2016

Achieved result

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The times of Nuclear Simulators · Control room stimulation DCS emulation Back-up panel ... Mitigation plan developed to enable Emulated I&C integration Plant System thermal hydraulic