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Risk-Informed Inservice Testing Program Developing a New
Inservice Testing Program
PD597 ASME STANDARDS COURSE PD598 ASME STANDARDS COURSE N UC LE A R Public Courses
How to convert a typical IST Program 10-year update to a RI-IST (Risk This course gives participants an overview of the NPP (nuclear power
Informed Inservice Testing) Program that the Nuclear Regulatory plant) licensing requirements and will cover the requirements to
Commission will accept and approve is the focus of this course. developing a new PST (pre-service testing)/ IST (inservice testing)
program and guidelines for successful implementation.
It provides an overview of the ISTE (the subsection of the code referring
to Risk Testing Requirements); an overview of ISTA (General Testing It is recommended, but not required, that students bring copies of the
Requirements); program requirements, guidance, and preparation; ASME OM - 2012 Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants
industry risk-informed initiatives; performance-based initiatives; and codebook to this course.
several case studies.
You Will Learn To
While designed specifically for the IST engineers working at the plant or
IST program regulators with 5 to 10 years of experience in the nuclear • Identify PST/IST components
industry, new engineers will also benefit from the basic information the • Explain how to select a deterministic or risk-informed PST/IST
course provides related to safety systems, standby equipment and
application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods (PRA). Program
• Identify the ASME code of record & document location of
You Will Learn To
requirements
• Perform Risk Informed-IST 10-year update of the IST program • Describe the process of NRC approval of PST/ IST Program
• Identify RI-IST requirements • Describe PST/IST Program implementing procedures
• Identify PRA strengths and weaknesses • Explain how to train plant personnel to perform PST/IST Program
• Describe the details of current and future regulatory changes affecting
Who Should A end
RI-IST
Licensing engineers, startup engineers and IST engineers
Who Should A end
Instructor C. Wesley (Wes) Rowley
Inservice testing engineers and regulators, project managers, 5 Days, 3.8 CEUs, 38 PDHs
engineering managers with risk assessment responsibilities Member 2,77 List Price 2,89
Instructor C. Wesley (Wes) Rowley
3 Days, 2.3 CEUs, 23 PDHs
Member 1,89 List Price 1,99
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