Performance Work Statement 23MAR2020.pdf

US Army 20th CBRNE Nuclear Disablement Team (NDT)

Nuclear Reactor Operator Training Course

Performance Work Statement

1. General Information: The U.S. Army, HQ, 20th CBRNE Command Nuclear

Disablement Team (NDT) requires one Nuclear Reactor Operator Training course, in accordance with this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The NDT is a unit of nuclear experts equipped and trained to perform missions, which support theater and strategic objectives. Understanding how a reactor plant responds under normal operating conditions, routine shutdown, and accidents is vital to all team members whose jobs potentially entails responding to a nuclear plant during military operations. It is also imperative that NDT members who may be called upon to safely shutdown a nuclear plant, possibly on very short notice, be aware of the similarities between all major types of nuclear plants; including reactor theory, safety system design and construction, key plant parameters, and plant layouts. The ultimate goal of the required Nuclear Reactor

Training course, is to train NDT members to safely respond to a wide range of nuclear reactors on short notice, in a variety of tactical circumstances.

2. Description of Services/Scope of Work: The contractor shall design and execute a five-day (40 hour) Nuclear Reactor Operator training course to instruct and familiarize

NDT personnel with reactor plant control room operations, identification of critical safety parameters with related indicators and controls, and actions to adjust controls as necessary to maintain the plant in a safe condition. The training will include classroom instructions on topics such as accident analysis, severe accident management, and

Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) and Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) operations. In order to ensure the baseline fundamentals of reactor operations is understood by all NDT members, the classroom portion of the course shall cover the outlined topics below:

- Reactor Theory Objective: Discuss the fission process; explain the events that can occur during a neutron generation; describe examples of operator controlled reactivity insertion methods; and describe examples of inherent reactivity effects.

- Anatomy of a nuclear plant Describe major components of different types of reactors

1. Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)

2. Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)

3. Graphite Moderator Reactors

- Identification of major systems in the control room. Describe the engineered safety features systems and the function of the Reactor Protection System.

- Potential severe accidents for nuclear plants including loss of AC power, loss of coolant accidents, and steam generator line ruptures, with particular emphasis on the operator actions required in response to the accident.

1. Loss of all AC power

2. Loss of Coolant Accident

3. Steam Generator Line Rupture

- Secondary problems

1. Loss of one/all Diesel Generators (DGs)

2. Loss of feed pumps(s)

3. Loss of heat sink

- Tactical solutions to identified problems (Demonstrate methods of evaluating accidents).

1. Combinations of secondary problems

2. Combinations of severe and secondary problems

The Nuclear Reactor Operator training course shall also be designed to give the NDTs a sound understanding of reactor plant safety systems, control room design, reactor theory, and identification of major components and parameters. In order to meet this objective, the contractor will also provide scenario based training in a full scale control room simulator. At least three scenarios will be executed in the simulator directly corresponding to the topics discussed in the classroom portion. The scenarios of concern are loss of all AC power, loss of coolant accident and steam generator line rupture.

In all scenarios, the contractor shall explicitly highlight the hazards associated with each accident and immediate actions necessary to bring the plant back under stable conditions. In addition, the scenarios should provide clear understanding of the reactor fundamentals that drive changes in temperature and pressure within the reactor core.

The contractor shall ensure that the Nuclear Reactor Operator training course involves the practical application of course concepts in a full mock-up of a reactor control room. Therefore, the focus of the course shall be on the scenarios conducted during the simulator training to include demonstrations, and practical exercises in order to increase the ability of a NDT to quickly identify major challenges and then place the plant in a safe condition from the control room. The scenarios executed in the simulator will be for all NDT participants and can be executed by rotating smaller groups through as needed.

The Nuclear Reactor Operator training course shall provide a bounded work book with all power point/instruction printed, for the NDT student to follow along with to include general schematics of reactors of interest and their supported balance of plant components.

The contractor and/or its affiliates shall not publicize acknowledgement of 20th CBRNE CMD using its services or identities of unit personnel involved without written review and approval from 20th CBRNE CMD. Any use or acknowledgement of a relationship with 20th CBRNE

CMD, other than for internal administrative purposes, is prohibited without written consent. At no time will classified material be discussed during the training event and the contractor shall not have access to any restricted areas or information.

3. Type of Contract: Purchase order with a base, plus two option years.

4. Period of Performance: The period of performance is for a consecutive 40 hour/ five day training course, to be executed between 11 May 2020 and 11 January 2021, for the base period.

Period of performance of Option Year(s) (OY) if exercised: OY (1) 12 January 2021 through 11

January 2022 and OY (2) 12 January 2022 through 11 January 2023.

The period of performance will provide flexibility between the contractor and the NDTs to negotiate the most opportune time frame to execute the 40hr block of instruction.

5. Place of Performance: The primary place of performance should be a contractor owned or operated facility that allows for the training of 15 NDT personnel in both a classroom and simulator environment. The facility should also provide hand on exposure to full scale nuclear power plant components.

6. Personal Protective Equipment and Safety: The contractor shall be responsible for any necessary safety equipment to train at their facility. The facility should be conducive to an academic training, professional and safe environment while still providing a representative layout of control room and associate components of a reactor (to scale). The contractor shall comply with the Occupational safety and Health Act (OHSA), Federal and State standards necessary to support course instructions.

7. Travel: Contractor will not be responsible for any travel. NDT personnel will separately fund all travel to contractor’s facility for training.

8. Required Certifications: Contractor shall provide an instructor with Senior Reactor

Operator (SRO) certification, instrumentation and control, nuclear engineering, and simulator based training, thereby ensuring a broad base of experiences and capabilities in order to make this training highly effective and operationally based.