At Duke / Oconee - level of review is with the shift supervisors (Control Room SRO) with no thresholds for higher levels of review. Also, we haven't defined to any great detail when the plan should be revised; typically, the plan is revised when the narrative of the plan doesn't reflect reality. We do differentiate between the "plan" and the "prediction" and will update the prediction with actual boron, times for power changes and other minor variations within the plan (in the broad sense).
Ramp rate limits are in the technical procedure for conducting a maneuver. Operators are trained on them. We haven't been able to get the plant computer changed to incorporate the ramp rates for an alarm or constrain the control system to not allow power changes greater than the ramp rate restrictions (yet).
Carl
Carl D. Fago
Reactor Engineering Supervisor
Oconee Nuclear Station
Duke Energy
864-885-3047
cdfago@duke-energy.com
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From: pwrrm@retaqs.com [mailto:pwrrm@retaqs.com] On Behalf Of Adina.K.Lafrance@dom.com Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:20 AM To: pwrrm@retaqs.com Subject: [Pwrrm] Reactivity plan approval and revisions/ramp rate alarm
SOER 07-01 recommendation 3 stated that "plans for significant reactivity changes are reviewed and approved by appropriate station and shift operations management..." and "If plant conditions delay power changes, the reactivity plan is revised to meet the new plant conditions and approved by management".
Does anyone have specific thresholds for:
1) the level of review a plan requires (such as <10% requires shift supervision, >10% requires shift management, >50% requires station management)
or
2) when a reactivity plan must be revised (such as > 1 hour delay, rods
10 steps from the predicted value, current power level step >2% from
predicted)
Additional question
How do other stations incorporate any ramp rate restrictions that may apply? (Ramp rate alarm, operator training, ramp plan)
Thank you.
Adina LaFrance
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