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Study on Itemized Requirements of Safety Digital I&C System in NPP

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Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems (SICPNPP 2018)

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Abstract

Software reliability for digital instrumentation and control (I&C) systems is critical, which malfunction may give wrong action and endanger the nuclear power plants. Software verification and validation (V&V) is an effective means of improving software reliability. With the further research on safety-critical software used for NPPs, the quality of V&V has become key concern of the safety regulatory authorities around the world. Traceability is the basic requirement on I&C functions during the life cycle V&V activities. In this paper, necessity of implementing itemized requirements on I&C function is studied according to the nuclear safety regulations and related standards. What’s more, key points of itemized requirements are proposed by learning from CPR1000 NPPs’ project experience. It would be helpful to ensure the software V&V quality with proper workload.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Power Safety Monitoring Technology and Equipment, I&C Equipemnt Qualification and Software V&V Laboratory, China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, 518172, Guangdong, China

    Tao Bai, Peng-Fei Gu & Ya-Nan He

  2. Shenzhen Middle School, Shenzhen, China

    Ji-Xiang Shu

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  1. Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Yang Xu

  2. College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Hong Xia

  3. China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

    Feng Gao

  4. China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

    Weihua Chen

  5. Product Information Committee of China Instrument and Control Society, Beijing, China

    Zheming Liu

  6. China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

    Pengfei Gu

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Bai, T., Shu, JX., Gu, PF., He, YN. (2019). Study on Itemized Requirements of Safety Digital I&C System in NPP. In: Xu, Y., Xia, H., Gao, F., Chen, W., Liu, Z., Gu, P. (eds) Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems. SICPNPP 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 507. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3113-8_26

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