China country report on I&C status and recommendations to IAEA

1. China country report on I&C status and recommendations to IAEA Jiang HongThe 22nd Meeting of the IAEATWG – NPPICon May 20-22, 2009,Austria Center Vienna (ACV), Vienna, Austria

2. Presentation Outlines • Nuclear Power in China • Activities ongoing • Issues and Topics to IAEA • Experts and Contributors

3. Nuclear Power in China NPP in operation Note: Refer to 2007 TWG report for I&C systems applied in existing NPPs.

4. Nuclear Power in China • Challenges to Chinese NPP I&C industry: • By 2007, 11 units in operation, but 5 types of reactor among them: • 300MW PWR • 600MW PWR • 900MW PWR • 700MW CANDU • 1060MW VVER • Lack of human resource and knowledge accumulation: • Engineers spreading out concentrating at different I&C system specific to each type of reactor, thus experiences narrowed. • Much more knowledgeable experts needed to support regulator. • No time to recall, digest and “asking why” before being driven to a new era.

5. Nuclear Power in China • Policy and Planning: • Policy changed from “properly development” to “actively promoting”. • By the year 2020, NPP installed capacity will targeting at 40 GWe, accounting for 4% of total installed electric power supply nationwide. And NPP of 18 billion KWe under construction in addition. • Recent study on national NPP program planning shows, 75 GWe, accounting for 5% of Total capacity is expected by 2020, still far from world average level 17%.

6. Nuclear Power in China NPPs in construction and to be built in 2009 Note: All new built after 2006 installed with full scope digital I&C and Adv. MCR

7. Activities ongoing • Activities ongoing in China NPP I&C industry • Engineering • CNPE • CNPDC • INET • System integrator • CNCS • China Techenergy Co. • SNPAS • Utilities • Nuclear power plants

8. Activities ongoing-Engineering China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNPE) QS-II Extention, 2x650MW PWR FCD: Mar. 28, 2006 Construction: 60 months I/A for non-1E control system Soft control for Conventional Island Analogue technology for others

9. Activities ongoing-Engineering China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNPE) General engineering contractor for LA-II 2x1080MW PWR FCD: Feb., 2005, in operation Oct., 2010. Full scope digital I&C, T-XP, T-XS, OM690 Advanced MCR, Optimized alarm system,

10. Activities ongoing-Engineering China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNPE) EPC contractor for Fuqing NPP, 2x1000MW PWR FCD: Nov. 21, 2008, in operation Nov. 2013. (first unit) Full scope digital I&C, TRICONEX + I/A, Advanced MCR, Diversified RPS

11. Activities ongoing-Engineering China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNPE) EPC contractor for Fangjiashan NPP, 2x1000MW PWR FCD: Dec. 26, 2008, in operation Dec. 2013. (first unit) Full scope digital I&C, TRICONEX + I/A, Advanced MCR, Diversified RPS

12. Activities ongoing-Engineering China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNPE) • EPC contractor in Coming NPP project: • Hunan, Taohuajiang 4xAP1000 • Hainan, Changjiang 2x600MW, PWR • Tianwan 5-6, 2x1000MW, PWR • Fuqing 3-4, 2x1000MW, PWR, • Fuqing 5-6, 2x1000MW, CNP1000, PWR • Full scope DCS for all projects above.

13. Activities ongoing-Engineering China Nuclear Power Design Co. (CNPDC) • LA-II 2x1000MW, CPR1000, HMI detail design incl. displays, alarm optimization, comupterized procedures. • Engineering design for Full scope DCS system of Hongyanhe , Yangjiang, Ningde . CPR1000. • I&C general design • DCS system general design • Advanced MCR design • R&D on HFE, Stds, 1E platform (HW&SW), Software V&V etc.

14. Activities ongoing-Engineering • Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology(INET), Tsinghua University • I&C engineering design for the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor demonstration project (HTR-PM) in shidaowan in Shandong Province, ATP in 2009, expected operation in 2013. • Preliminary design and PSAR completed • Detail design and key technologies verification testing ongoing. • Emphases addressed on the integrated control mode, I&C system structure, layout and control rooms for multi NSSS system of modular reactors.

15. Activities ongoing-Sys. integrator Introduction on China local DCS System integrator Background: As Chinese government established the policy to actively develop the nuclear power industry, efforts on Self-reliance of DCS system integration, localization of the equipment manufacturing and making the technical service and spare parts supply for operating plants locally available, have been one of the major factors to assure the state nuclear power program to be realized and sustainable. To meet the demands of government policy, three major players in china nuclear power industry, CNNC(China National Nuclear Corporation), CGNPC(China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation) and SNPTC(State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation Ltd) have established the companies respectively in the past few years, relying on the ongoing projects, to accept Tech. transfer and progressively to become a qualified DCS system engineering and integrating supplier.

16. Activities ongoing-Sys. integrator Introduction on China local DCS System integrator Three key companies: 1) China Nuclear Control System Engineering Co., Ltd. (CNCS) Founded in Beijing in August, 2008, jointly invested by CNPE，BNIF and Shanghai Puyuan, 3 subsidiaries of CNNC. 2) China Techenergy Co. Ltd. Founded in Beijing in October, 2005, jointly invested by CGNPC and Beijing Hollysys Automation Company. 3) State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Corp. (SNPAS) Founded in Shanghai in March, 2008, jointly invested by SNPTC and Shanghai Automation Instrumentation Corporation Ltd (SAIC).

17. Activities ongoing-Sys. integrator • Activities ongoing in NPP I&C area – Sys. Integrator • 1) CNCS • Participated or undertake design, V&V, procurement, system integration, FAT, commisioning and SAT of digital I&C system in Fuqing and Fangjiashan NPP projects. • R&D planning on 1E HW&SW platform. • 2) China Techenergy Co. Ltd. • Participated or undertake design, V&V, procurement, system integration, FAT, commisioning and SAT of digital I&C system in Yangjiang and Ningde NPP projects. • R&D activities on 1E HW&SW platform. • SNPAS • Participated or undertake design, V&V, procurement, system integration, FAT, commisioning and SAT of digital I&C system in Sanmen and Haiyang AP1000 projects.

18. Activities ongoing-Utilities Activities ongoing in NPP I&C area – Utilities Keep on management of NPP I&C obsolete, aging and upgrading, improving reliability, accuracy and life time of NPP I&C system and equipment. Continually improve equipment management system for various I&C equipment and devices, to enhance the performance monitoring and status data collection, paying much attention on reliability issues. Obsolete and shortage of spare parts for outdated component have been critical long term issues which operating plants have to work on and put much effort to improve the situation. Most plants have launched aging management project and start to collect aging data of I&C. Together with these activities, the effort also are put on establishing the upgrading plans for NPP life cycle.

19. Activities ongoing-Utilities Activities ongoing in NPP I&C area – Utilities (Cont.) Optimizing preventive maintenance program of NPP I&C, and establishing maintenance plans for NPP life cycle. Preventive maintenance system is more and more important along with the increasing of plant operating time. Plants have developed the preventive maintenance program and carried out the maintenance and repairing work based on this program, and will keep on optimizing the program with collected performance status data and defects statistics. Integrating the activities of the equipment management and the preventive maintenance program, to make maintenance work more pertinent, efficient and actually effective, which is expected to result in a prolonged reliable operating time of I&C system.

20. Issues and Topics • Issues and Topics Collected from China NPP I&C industry • Engineering • System integrator • Utilities • May or may not covered by current IAEA activities, but reflecting current needs in China NPP I&C industry. • IAEA Tech. support can be: • Tecdoc • Training • Workshop • Small group of expert consulting on specific topics

21. Issues and Topics - Engineering • Issues and Topics from Engineering: • Case study and Implementing process for design and V&V of Computerized MCR • Qualification requirement and engineering requirement with regard to independence and diversity on fiber optical cables used in Safety system • R&D and qualification of 1E digital control platform (HW&SW) • Qualification requirement and practice on 1E instruments and pneumatic or motor drives. • Field Bus application in safety system • I&C aging management and its measures to be considered in system and plant engineering design. • Standards application comparison between IEEE and IEC.

22. Issues and Topics - Engineering • Issues and Topics from Engineering: (cont.) • Application and qualification of measuring instrumentations for severe accident conditions. • Differences of I&C engineering design requirements among PWR, AP1000, EPR, Fast Breeder reactor and HTGR. • Experiences & best practices on modernization in operating plant • I&C knowledge preservation and training for new recruits. • Specific consulting and safety review in Hongyanhe NPP project. • DAC solution （diverse actuator control, without BUP installed）with regard D-in-D&D • Manual checking as part of V&V on Meltec platform • Comuperized Procedure • Licensing Method and Stds on 1E Digital I&C application and Supplier

23. Issues & Topics – Sys integrator • Issues and Topics by system integrator: • Consulting on comparison and application between EU and USA standards regarding to the safety classification and respective practical qualification requirement and methods on 1E digital platform and IEC61513 class 2 and 3 equipment. • Guides on period testing method, configuration and system parameters to be examined in 1E digital system. • In-depth technical discussion on feasibility of implementing bidirectional communication between Safety and non-safety digital systems through network. • Practice and method for V&V of 1E digital system development platform and tools. • Practice on reliability analysis and V&V of 1E SW platform.

24. Issues & Topics – Utilities • Issues and Topics by utilities: • Site elements seals maintenance • After analysis on Equipment defects statistics, seals of site sensor element and driving component are major weakness causing leakage. Sharing of method and requirement on its repairing or maintenance practice of other NPP is needed. • Spare parts rules for new I&C • Due to the very fast upgrade or replacement of obsolete I&C equipment, and failure modes of new one are hardly obtained in time, it is difficult for maintenance department to define the rules and scope of spare parts.

25. Issues & Topics – Utilities • Issues and Topics by utilities : (Cont.) • Preventive maintenance for DCS HW&SW • Preventive maintenance activities for digital control system seem only limited to general periodic functional testing and cleaning. What should be done with this respect for in-depth preventive maintenance on hardware and software?. • Analogue I&C Performance monitoring • A workshop needs to be held to share the best practices on performance monitoring, and Surveillance, diagnostics, and prognostic methods of NPP analogue I&C systems.

26. Issues & Topics – Utilities • Issues and Topics by utilities : (Cont.) • Study or practices sharing on engineering of DCS online maintenance • Technologies of computer network, server, workstation, power supply, and redundancy engineering of critical component and power module of digital control system have made it possible to perform maintenance work on line for DCS. A platform supported by IAEA to do the in-depth engineering analysis on the feasibility and technical constrains is appreciated, in order to establish the specification to the engineering of signal distribution and power supply, and the requirement to the manufacturing on modules, wirings, switches, heat dispersion component.

27. Issues & Topics – Utilities • Issues and Topics by utilities : (Cont.) • Practices on DCS FAT, installation, commissiong and SAT • All the new built NPPs in China will be installed with digital control system, for which DCS system FAT, site installation, commissioning and SAT will take place in 2011 to 2014. Workshop in 2010 sponsored by IAEA on best practices in those areas would be appreciated. • I&C aging management • IAEA to provide technical support and guidance on I&C aging management in the operating plant, with respect to techniques and methods of mechanism analysis, monitoring, screening out and counter measures.

28. Issues & Topics – Utilities • Issues and Topics by utilities : (Cont.) • NPP suppliers list and Technicians & experts list • The facts that the original I&C were supplied by foreign manufactures who may be no longer maintaining the production of the outdated component, or may have been bankrupted and no longer exist, have caused difficulties for operating plant to have long term, stable and in time spare parts supply. • IAEA is recommended to generate an updated manufactures list by product or system, which shares the information of companies who have ever been or are being NPP suppliers, and to collect and establish a global I&C technicians and experts contact list together with the brief introduction of their organization and products or systems being used for communication and information exchange.

29. Experts & Contributors • Special Thanks to the Experts & Contributors: • China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. • Mr. Lv Dongbao, Deputy Chief Engineer, lvdb@cnpe.cc • Ms. Zhang Li, General Design Division, zhanglia@cnpe.cc • China Nuclear Power Design Co. Ltd. • Mr. Sun Yongbin, Director I&C Dept., sunyongbin@cgnpc.com.cn • Qinshan Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. • Mr. Fang Jintu, Equipment Management Dept., fangjt@qnpc.cn • Mr. Tian Lu, Engineering Design Management Dept., tianl@qnpc.cn • Mr. Pu Xiaobin, Planning Dept., puxb@qnpc.cn • Nuclear Power Qinshan Joint Venture Co. Ltd. • Mr. Dong Juncheng, Maintenance Dept, dongjc@npqjvc.cn • Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. • Mr. Hong Tan, Maintenance Dept., hongtan@tqnpc.com

30. Experts & Contributors • Special Thanks to the Experts & Contributors: (Cont.) • China Nuclear Control System Engineering Co., Ltd. • Mr. Tang Yi, President, tangyi@cncs.bj.cn • China Techenergy Co. Ltd. • Mr. Hao Zhijian, President, haozhijian@hollysys.com • Mr. Zhu Yiming, zhuyiming@hollysys.com • State Nuclear Power Automation System Engineering Corp. • Mr. Qiu Shaoyang, President, qiushaoyang@snpas.com.cn • Mr. Zenghai, Chief Engineer, zenghai@snpas.com.cn • Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology(INET), Tsinghua University • Mr. Zhang Liangju, I&C division, zhanglj@tsinghua.edu.cn

31. Thank you for your attention