2017 EQ Technical Meeting (21093-217)
 

2017 Equipment Qualification Technical Meeting Agenda
Monday - Friday, November 6-10, 2017
Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida

 

Agenda Overview

 

Monday, November 6, 2017

2017 Advanced EQ Training Course     8:00am – 5:00pm

Advanced EQ Training topic: EQ Program Owner Best Practices - Applying Lessons Learned from Design Basis Assurance (Programs) Inspections. 

Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Scientech, Newell “Woody” Woodward, NKW, Inc., and Ron Wise, NEQ Consulting

       ·          Sand Key Room

Breakfast & Lunch (Training Attendees & Registered Guest Only)

       ·          Sand Key Room (Breakfast)     7:30am – 8:00am
  •     Rusty’s Dinning Hall (Lunch)     12:00pm-1:00pm

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

2017 Advanced EQ Training Course     8:00am – 12:00pm

  • Sand Key Room

Breakfast (Training Attendees & Registered Guest Only)     7:30am – 8:00am

  • Sand Key Room

 EQMS User Group Meeting     3:00pm – 5:00pm

  • Sand Key Room

Welcoming Reception     7:00pm - 9:00pm

  • Poolside (grass area)

Wednesday, 8, 2017

29th Annual EQ Technical Meeting (full agenda below)     8:00am – 5:00pm

Moderator - Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS
Bill Horin, Winston & Strawn LLP – Nuclear Utility Group on Equipment Qualification

·                Island Ballroom

Wednesday Evening Activity

·                Dinner Cruise

Breakfast & Lunch

·                Breakfast – Gulf/Palm/Bay
·                Lunch – Gulf/Palm/Bay

Thursday, 9, 2017

29th Annual EQ Technical Meeting (full agenda below)     8:00am – 5:00pm

Moderator – Bill Horin, Winston & Strawn LLP, and Ron Wise, NEQ Consulting

·                Island Ballroom

Breakfast & Lunch

·                Breakfast – Gulf/Palm/Bay
·                Lunch – Gulf/Palm/Bay
Thursday Evening
·                No activity planned

Friday, 10, 2017

29th Annual EQ Technical Meeting (full agenda below)     8:00am – 12:00pm

Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS
Bill Horin, Winston & Strawn LLP – Nuclear Utility Group on Equipment Qualification

·                Island Ballroom

Breakfast

·                Gulf/Palm/Bay 

JANUS Working Group     1:00pm – 4:00pm

·                Meeting Room – Beach Room

 


Full Agenda
2017 EQ Technical Meeting Wednesday, November 8

 

Welcome and Introductions      8:00am – 8:15am

Opening Remarks/Introductions

Moderator - Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS

EQ PowerSuite Year in Review                                            Wednesday AM Session          

Year in Review     8:20am – 9:15am

Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS

 

EQ Program Topics                                                                  Wednesday AM Session          

Subsequent License Renewal Approach and Impacts     9:15am - 10:00 am

Spencer C. Feuerstein, Enercon

 

Break      10:00am – 10:20am


 

Vibration Aging     10:20am - 11:00am

Jim Gleason, GLSEQ, LLC

 

IEEE 60780-323 Joint Stand Update     11:00am – 11:45am

Bob Konnick, RSCC & John White, Luminant

 

Lunch     11:45am – 1:15pm

 

EQ Industry Initiatives and Technical Topics                     Wednesday PM Session

In-situ Testing Technique for On-Going Cable Aging Assessments at Oyster Creek 

 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Chad Kiger, AMS

 

Bruce EQ Extension Project     1:45pm - 2:30pm

Shaun Abbas, Bruce Power

 

Break     2:30pm – 3:00pm

 

Improving Designs and Reducing Qualification Costs using 
Agile Engineering
       3:00pm - 3:30pm
Adam Gaither, Ultra-Electronics

 

ASO’s NP Operating Experience and NP-G/H Series Updates

     3:30pm - 4:00pm
Nick Ingles & Steve Casadevall, Emerson

Analysis Methods to Reduce EQ Dose 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Nathan Block, Red Wolf Associates
                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Q & A/Network/Open Discussion     4:30pm – 5:00pm

 

Meeting Adjourn     5:00pm

 


2017 EQ Technical Meeting Thursday, November 9

Introductions and NUGEQ Business
    8:00am – 9:00am
  • Overview of EQFAX’s, Part 21’s, Generic Communications, WSPlus Updates, Other

Industry and NRC Panel Discussion – NRC Program Inspections     9:00am – 10:20am

  • NRC Overall Program Inspection Initiative
  • NRC EQ DBA Program Inspection Initiative
    • Group Comments on Initiative
    • Inspection Results by Plant 2017
    • Tentative 2018 Schedule
    • NRC Staff New Positions/Focus
    • Commercial Grade Dedication, Arrhenius Calculation, Activation Energy Determination, DOR and NUREG–0588 Reinterpretation(s), Other
    • Group Member Support

Break    10:20am – 10:40am

Regulatory Developments    10:40am – 11:15am

  • Service Life Draft RIS/NRC Backfit Analysis
  • Regulatory Guidance External Petitions
  • Enforcement Guidance Regarding Design Compliance Subsequent License Renewal

Delivering the Nuclear Promise    11:15am – 12:00pm

  • Group/Industry Initiatives (Risk-Informed, Post Accident Operating Time, Graded Qualification, Optimizing Maintenance Intervals, Program Scope Limitation to 50.49)

Lunch   12:00pm – 1:15pm

NRC Presentation – “Challenges in the Environmental Qualification of First of a Kind Components”     1:15pm – 1:45pm
Jeff Jacobson, NRC

Benchmarking Discussion    1:45pm –  2:15pm 

Vendor Developments   2:15pm – 2:45pm

  • Inspections
  • Departure of Nuclear Vendors

Break    2:45pm – 3:00pm 

Utility Information Exchange – CLOSED Session – Utilities ONLY     3:00pm – 5:00pm 

  • Individual Utility Issues, Industry Issues



2017 EQ Technical Meeting Friday, November 10

International Topics

Moderator – Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Scientech, EQPS


Saving Energy and Cost by Standardization.  Condition Monitoring

Methods, IEC/IEEE 62582-X      8:15am - 9:00am

Sven Olof-Palm, Vattenfall

 

Break   9:00am - 9:15am

 

On Study of Synergistic Effect for PEEK of CEDM in Nuclear Power
Plant Using TGA Method 
    
9:15am – 10:00am

Kim Han Soo, Jae Hyung and Keug Jin Bhang, KHNP

 

Japanese Cable EQ Testing     10:00am - 10:45am 

Yasutaka Eguchi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

 

Break    10:45am - 11:00am

 

Q&A/Network/Open Session     11:00am – 11:45am

Marek Tengler, Rizzo Associates & Bohumir Myslin, Czech Republic Military Technical Institute

 

Meeting Adjourn