Moscow forum to discuss nuclear station life cycle management

The management of a nuclear station’s life cycle from designing a nuclear power plant to decommissioning one will be discussed at the 3rd international science to practice Multi-D forum Life Cycle Management of Complex Engineering Facilities. Tools for Operation Support in Moscow on 13-14 June, BelTA learned from the united company OAO NIAEP – ZAO Atomstroyexport (ASE), which is the initiator and the key organizer of the forum.

The Moscow forum is a logical continuation of the two forums held in Nizhny Novgorod in 2011 and 2012. The first forum focused on creating a universal information space for designing while the second one focused on creating a universal information space for building. The key topic of the year 2013 forum is the creation of a universal information space for running complex engineering facilities.

Russian and foreign companies of the nuclear industry, construction industry, oil and gas industry, and other industries that develop complex engineering facilities are invited to participate in the forum. Companies from more than 20 countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, France, Germany, India, China, Japan, the USA and other ones) have confirmed they will participate in the event.

As part of the forum the 7th international fair Nuclear Equipment and Systems will be held. Suppliers of equipment and materials for the power-generating units, which are being built in Russia and abroad, including Belarus, are invited to participate.

Prior to the forum’s opening OAO NIAEP will invite foreign delegations to visit construction sites of power-generating units No. 3 and No. 4 of the Rostov nuclear power plant where the universal information system will be demonstrated live.

The united company OAO NIAEP – ZAO Atomstroyexport is part of the state corporation Rosatom and is the general designer of the Belarusian nuclear power plant and the general contractor responsible for building the facility. The company is now busy building and designing over 20 power-generating units in Russia and abroad.

The Multi-D technology that the forum will emphasize allows combining the technological, designing, and construction facets into a single digital model of a nuclear power plant. All the possible discrepancies, inconsistencies that may emerge in the course of building and operating a complicated engineering facility can be vividly displayed using the Multi-D technology, with optimal solutions prompted. The developers of the Multi-D technology believe that the technology can be used to design all the components of the facility in different information environments and can combine all the designs into one.