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Title Challenges and Approaches for Selecting, Assessing and Qualifying Commercial Industrial Digital Instrumentation and Control Equipment for Use in Nuclear Power Plant Applications [electronic resource].

Imprint Havertown : International Atomic Energy Agency, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (121 p.).
Series IAEA Nuclear Energy Ser. ; v.NR-T-3.31
IAEA Nuclear Energy Ser.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Intro -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Objective -- 1.3. Scope -- 1.4. Structure -- 2. Challenges associated with commercial industrial DIGITAL Instrumentation and Control equipment -- 2.1. Challenges in the use of commercial off the shelf devices -- 2.1.1. Complexity of the component, multifunction, primary and support functions -- 2.1.2. Common cause failure considerations -- 2.2. Specific hardware and software vulnerabilities of digital commercial off the shelf devices -- 2.2.1. Potential new failure modes and hazards
2.2.2. Identification of embedded digital devices with undeclared content -- 2.2.3. Counterfeit, fraudulent and suspect items -- 2.2.4. Computer security considerations -- 2.3. Organizational challenges -- 2.3.1. Procurement and definition of safety requirements with contractual ties -- 2.3.2. Device selection -- 2.3.3. Generic and limited justification/qualification -- 2.3.4. Evidence required to address the commercial off the shelf device's justification -- 2.3.5. Change management -- 2.3.6. Lack of qualified and experienced personnel
3. Strategy for the justification of commercial industrial instrumentation and control equipment -- 3.1. Key elements to consider in the definition of the justification strategy -- 3.1.1. Definition of the justification envelope -- 3.1.2. Assessment of a commercial off the shelf device -- 3.1.3. Integration of the commercial off the shelf device in the overall instrumentation and control architecture -- 3.2. Other considerations for defining a justification strategy -- 3.2.1. Evidence -- 3.2.2. Selection of personnel involved in the justification -- 3.2.3. Graded approach
3.2.4. Generic versus specific justifications of a commercial off the shelf device -- 3.2.5. Computer security -- 3.2.6. Engineering judgement -- 4. Justification process -- 4.1. Step 1: Defining requirements and prerequisites -- 4.2. Step 2: Selecting candidate devices -- 4.3. Step 3: Obtaining manufacturer information and support -- 4.4. Step 4: Planning -- 4.5. Step 5: Assessing -- 4.5.1. Quality assurance, development and manufacturing processes -- 4.5.2. Functional, performance and dependability assessment -- 4.5.3. Vulnerabilities and failure modes assessment
4.5.4. Environmental and seismic qualification -- 4.5.5. Independent complementary assessment -- 4.6. Step 6: Identifying lifetime issues -- 4.7. Step 7: Preparing the justification documentation package -- 5. Maintenance of justification -- 5.1. Overview -- 5.2. Change and defect reporting -- 5.2.1. Item certification maintenance -- 5.2.2. Regulatory defect reporting responsibility -- 5.3. Periodic quality assurance measures -- 5.4. Security management -- 5.5. Configuration management -- 5.5.1. Changes to hardware -- 5.5.2. Changes to software
Note 5.6. Commercial off the shelf device justification maintenance
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Subject Nuclear power plants -- Equipment and supplies.
Nuclear power plants -- Equipment and supplies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: IAEA Challenges and Approaches for Selecting, Assessing and Qualifying Commercial Industrial Digital Instrumentation and Control Equipment for Use in Nuclear Power Plant Applications Havertown : International Atomic Energy Agency,c2020
ISBN 9201100205
9789201100207 (electronic bk.)