Published 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

The results of the inspection of software and technical complex of the system of control and accounting of plant of the processing of solid radioactive waste

  • 1. Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants, NAS of Ukraine, Chornobyl (Ukraine)
  • 2. State Specialized Enterprise ''Chornobyl NPP'', Slavutich (Ukraine)

Description

A brief description of the results of the actual inspection (of the technical documentation of software and hardware complex of the control and accounting system of the plant for the processing of solid radioactive waste) and its analysis is given. Some systems (of monitoring of solid radioactive waste, gamma camera control module, container monitoring) operate and there are no claims to the effectiveness of their functioning. The other systems (of neutron radiation monitoring, of barrels monitoring, of dosimetric control of loaded barrels with high-level RAW, of radiation control of barrels prior to their conditioning and of control of large-scale SRWs) need to be upgraded or restored. Measures have been developed and proposed to improve the efficiency of these systems and/or to eliminate the identified nonconformities with the requirements for their functionality. As a result of the survey, it has been found that some of the operating instructions do not fully correspond to the current state of the software and technical complex of the system of control and accounting of plant of the processing of solid radioactive waste (accordingly, it is necessary to update this technical documentation). For the effective operation of the complex it is necessary to increase the staff of the operating personnel. Installed on industrial mini-computers software allows to manage all means of measuring equipment systems, as well as store, display, process and transmit the results of measurements for future use. However, software currently does not fully meet user requirements and does not allow all the necessary functions to be implemented, and therefore requires the upgrading, development and implementation of additional software modules. According to the results of the analysis of all workstations, it is proposed to improve the hardware part, namely to distribute the systems to separate PCs (at the moment several systems can be represented on one PC) and increase the productivity of the PC (to install more modern computers). Also, preliminary estimates were made of the cost and time of the modernization of the industrial-technical complex of the monitoring and accounting system of radioactive waste of the plant for the processing of solid radioactive waste, clarification of the types and volumes of works will be carried out in the process of developing a technical and work project for modernization.

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Original title (Ukrainian)
Rezul'tati obstezhennya programno-tekhnyichnogo kompleksu sistemi kontrolyu ta oblyiku zavodu z pererobki tverdikh radyioaktivnikh vyidkhodyiv

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Problemi Bezpeki Atomnikh Elektrostantsyij yi Chornobilya
Journal Volume
30
Journal Page Range
p. 93-102
ISSN
1813-3584