In January 2003 the first IAEA report on Configuration Management was issued as TECDOC-1335 “Configuration Management in Nuclear Power Plants.” Refer to discussion on this web site under “Advisory Group meeting on IAEA Guideline” for more information.

In 2002 the IAEA established a new project to write a Safety Series report on Configuration Management that focused more on the practical applications of CM. A Safety Series report is higher ranking document than a guideline document (TECDOC). The following team met at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria in June 2002 to write the first draft of the report (Refer to photo, “IAEA Safety Report Meeting June 2002”, reading left to right):

June 10-14, 2002 (1st Draft)

Raymond Petit, France

Bertil Hansson, IAEA

David Watkins, UK

Rick Harris, USA

Vojtech Kotyza IAEA

Eduard Dunge, Sweden

Gene Imbro, USA

With a working title of “Application of Configuration Management in Nuclear Power Plants,“ this first draft addressed these subjects.

  • Introduction
  • Fundamental Concepts - three-ball diagram (now called “CM Equilibrium Diagram”) and new CM Process Model developed by CMBG for use in development of Key Performance Indicators
  • Fundamental concepts including the CM Equilibrium Model (“three ball diagram”) and for the first time in a document for publication the CM Process model developed by a CMBG task force in February 2002 to show how to return to a state of CM Equilibrium
  • Applications of Configuration Management - examples of events and challenges to CM and list of good practices from nuclear plants of many countries
  • Organizational and Human Factors - knowledge management, safety culture aspects of CM
  • Self Assessments

A second meeting was held in June 2003 to further develop the Safety Report with the following team members (Refer to photo, “IAEA Safety Report Meeting June 2003”, reading left to right starting with top row):

June 2-6, 2003 (2nd Draft)

Tariq Hayat, Pakistan

Bertil Hansson, IAEA

Rick Harris, USA

Vojtech Kotyza IAEA

Csilla Toth, Hungary

Tomas Zak, Czech Rep

Helmut Fiedler, Germany

Starting with the first draft, this team organized Chapter 3 “Application of CM” into five logical functional areas, and expanded on the examples and challenges developed the year before. Annexes describe in more detail examples of events and challenges first addressed in the other chapters. Below is the Table of Contents from the 2nd draft. This report will be reviewed and edited for clarity and is scheduled be published in late 2003 or early 2004.

A copy of the latest draft is located on this web site.

IAEA SAFETY STANDARDS SERIES
Draft IAEA Safety Report
Application of Configuration Management in Nuclear Power Plants
Table of Contents
Abstract
1 / Introduction
1.1 / Reasons for This Safety Report
1.2 / Background for This Safety Report
1.3 / Present Situation a Need for Plant Configuration Management
1.4 / Scope and Structure of this Safety Report
2 / Structuring and Improving Configuration Management
2.1 / Objective of Configuration Management
2.2 / Disruptions in CM Equilibrium
2.3 / Processes for returning to CM Equilibrium
2.4 / Improving Configuration Management
3 / Applications of CM
3.1 / Design Basis Configuration (“Protect the Design Basis”)
3.2 / Engineering Change Control (“Modify the Plant”)
3.3 / Operational Configuration Control (“Operate the Plant”)
3.4 / Configuration of SSCs not in Service - Maintenance, Procurement and Training (“Maintain the Plant”)
3.5 / Plant Design Validation (“Test the Plant”)
4 / Organisational and Human Factor Aspects
4.1 / Human Interface Factor
4.2 / Transmission of knowledge.
4.3 / Limitation of ability to perform duties.
4.4 / Information management
4.5 / Supervision and verification of human activities.
4.6 / Cultural and motivation aspects.
5 / Self Assessments and Performance Indicators
5.1 / Self Assessments
5.2 / Performance Indicators
Definitions
References
Contributors to Drafting and Editing
Annexes
Annex A / Application of CM for Changes to Design Basis
Annex B / Application of CM due to cumulative effects of modifications
Annex C / Independent Review Of Modifications
Annex D / Validation Of Modifications Using Engineer Simulator
Annex E / Effective Line up Practices
Annex F / Prevention of Safety Systems Line up Errors
Annex G / Monitoring Plant Performance for Ageing Effects
Annex H / Maintaining Core Knowledge
Annex I / Computerised tools
Annex J / Assessment Of CM Processes
Annex K / Self-Assessment of Configuration Status
Annex L / Performance Indicators and Health Reports