Digital Instrumentation and Control - Technical Engineering Services

Added: Mar 16, 2012 2:24 pm

In support of a user need request from the Office of New Reactors (NRO), the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) is developing guidance for regulatory review of hazard analysis (HA) relevant to digital instrumentation and control (DI&C) safety systems in nuclear power plants (NPPs). This guidance, in the form of a research information letter (RIL-1101 titled "Technical Basis for Review Guidance for Digital Instrumentation and Control Safety Systems"), provides an integrated perspective for reviewing various aspects of HA, addressed in different parts of NRC's standard review plan (SRP), NUREG-0800, chapter 7. RIL-1101 focuses on integration of existing knowledge, including knowledge from the review of publicly available technical literature, as well as, knowledge from respective experts - the latter, being sought through this statement of work. RIL-1101 provides the technical basis to assist the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff in the exercise of judgment in the evaluation of HA for DI&C safety systems in NPPs, in a risk-informed performance-based manner.

The initial application of RIL-1101 is targeted for the licensing reviews of Small Modular Reactors (SMR), in support of NRO's "Design Specific Review Standard" (DSRS), i.e., design-specific SRP, for individual advanced reactor designs beginning with mPower. Lessons learned from the mPower application will be incorporated for use in future reviews.

The objective of this project is to obtain high quality professional engineering and scientific services from the Contractor to integrate into RIL-1101 relevant knowledge from respective experts through technical peer reviews. The project seeks knowledge from multiple experts in different disciplines.