Project Management for NPP Construction

Training Modules 

1. The main features of the modern project management 

2. Fuel production and quality and reliability assurance 

   2.1 Nuclear fuel behavior under irradiation 

   2.2 Technical requirements. Manufacturing. Quality assurance. Reliability 

   2.3 Advanced nuclear fuels 

   2.4 Technical tour to “Mashinostroitelny Zavod” (OAO MSZ). The process of fuel fabrication. Organizing work for acceptance of goods by foreign customers. 

3. Organizational and financial schemes for NPP construction 

   3.1 NPP prices. Financing sources of NPP construction projects 

   3.2 Introduction of Safety Culture at pre-operational phases of a newly built NPP 

   3.3 Scope of construction. NPP economic efficiency

   3.4 Financing schemes of NPP construction projects. Risk assessment in NPP construction 

4. Contracts for NPP construction: designing, concluding and implementing 

   4.1 The general concepts of the contract, the basic maintenance 

  4.2 The construction contract, general provisions 

   4.3 The construction contract on a turnkey basis 

   4.4 Features of contracts on construction of NPP 

5. Quality management during NPP construction 

   5.1 Key provisions of IAEA documents setting requirements to management systems at nuclear facilities 

   5.2 Quality audits and inspections during NPP construction 

6. Project “AES-2006” with the reactor VVER-1200. Basic technological solutions 

   6.1 Basic provisions of LNPP-2 project. Construction site of LNPP-2. Technical Tour to LNPP-2 

   6.2 Principal heat scheme. Modes of operation 

   6.3 Reactor and primary circle. Reactor pressure vessel 

   6.4 Control rod drive 

   6.5 Steam turbine K-1200-6,8/50 

   6.6 Hydraulic systems. Technical water supply for the turbine and other equipment 

   6.7 Electrical systems 

   6.8 Technical Tour to LNPP-1 

7. General plan for the first two power units of LNPP-2 

   7.1 Technical Tour to LNPP-2 

8. Project management in the NPP construction based on the Oracle Primavera software 

   8.1 Project management processes. Project risk management processes 

   8.2 Information system for project management (Composition of system, information system based on the Oracle Primavera software 

   8.3 Time management for the NPP construction project (role structure, development of schedules of 1st, 2nd and 3rd level)

 9. Final test 100 h total (74 h of lectures + 26 h of hands-on sessions)