Design enhancement in BWR feedwater control system: Experience feedback from Kuosheng NPP
- Dept. of Nuclear Safety, Taiwan Power Company, Sec. 3, 242 Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 100 Taiwan (China)
Though feedwater control system is used only for normal operation of the plant, it belongs to the category cited by SRP chapter 7.7 that has the potential to affect the performance of critical safety functions. Kousheng has been commercial operation for more than 20 years. Because of equipment aging problem and difficulties in getting spare parts, feedwater control system needs upgrade. Unit II feedwater control system was upgraded to modern digital control system in EOC-17 and Unit I was upgraded in EOC-18. Before the implementation of the project, Taipower has accumulated various experiences from previous digital control system retrofits in Chin-Shan, Kousheng and Maanshan NPP. A task force lead by author is formed to assist Kousheng. This paper shares the experience of Kousheng retrofit project. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22030007
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NPIC and HMIT 2006: 5. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Controls, and Human Machine Interface Technology, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 12-16 Nov 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; 6 refs.; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 5. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Controls, and Human Machine Interface Technology| 1430 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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