A Life Cycle Approach to NPP Information Modeling in the French Nuclear Industry. Annex III

Électricité de France S.A. (EDF) is France's main electricity generation and distribution utility largely owned by the French government. The company operates a diverse portfolio of generation capacity using nuclear power, coal and gas, and its operations include electricity generation, from engineering to distribution, as well as power plant design, construction and dismantling, energy trading and transport. EDF manages the country's 58 power reactors in addition, EDF is involved in the development of the EPR (Evolutionary Power Reactor), as well as in the design and construction of five EPR units in France (Flamanville), China (Taishan) and in the UK (Hinkley Point). Given its divers implication in NPP life cycle phases and its significant nuclear fleet, EDF's Nuclear Division has a long experience in developing sophisticated IT solutions aimed at managing technical data frameworks for plant design, construction, operation and maintenance. The group has developed a variety of tools in design and asset information management. The examples EDF exhibits are two cases which had major information modeling components during their development phase:  CAD 2000: plant design information management backbone solution aimed towards supporting the design of new EPR units;  SDIN: nuclear asset management solution, aimed towards optimizing fleet management performance in operation and maintenance phase. These tools are detailed in the following paragraphs.