IAEA TRAINING COURSES
Mr. Martin Svitek attended the IAEA TC RER2015: Regional Workshop on the Economic Feasibility and Improving Effectiveness of One -Time or Consecutive Long -Term Operations for Nuclear Power Plants, Zagreb, Croatia, 7-9 May 2019. He had a presentation on the topic: Long-Term Operation of the Bohunice and Mochovce NPPs.
Mr. P. Hlavac, Mr. R. Spenlinger and Mr. Z. Kovacs attended the International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analyses (PSA2019), April 28-May 3, 2019, Charleston, SC, USA. Mr. P. Hlavac presented the paper: Development of Multi-Unit PSA Model for the Case Study of the IAEA Project. Mr. Z. Kovacs was the session chair of the session External events II and panelist of the panel: Understanding of the Overall Risk Profile, Multiunit Context and Risk Aggregation Topics. The biennial international conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis has been organized by ANS (American Nuclear Society) since 1978. It is a forum for communication of major probabilistic risk and safety topics of nuclear power plants worldwide, including issues, methods, applications, insights, policy, research, and risk-informed regulation experience.
The 20th annual meeting of the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) took place on 20-22nd March 2019 in the Nuclear Energy Agency Headquarters of OECD in Paris. Mr Zoltan Kovacs attended the meeting on behalf of Slovak Republic. In his presentation he informed about the use and development of PSA in our country.
Mr. Pavol Hlavac attended the RiskWatcher annual meeting on 20-22nd March 2019 in Szekszard, Hungary. The objective of this meeting is to share information and experience within the users of risk monitoring systems.
China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd (CNPE) invited Mr. Zoltan Kovacs as a technical expert and senior adviser to attend technical exchange meeting organized in the field of Best estimate Thermal Hydraulic (TH) analyses and Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA). The meeting took place in December 17-22, 2018 in Beijing. Mr. Kovacs had lectures in the area of internal and external event level 1 and level 2 PSA of nuclear power plants. The invited experts from Italy (Nuclear and Industrial Engineering Company - NINE) had lectures about uncertaintes in TH analyses.
Mr. Zoltan Kovacs attended the PSAM14 - Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management conference in Los Angeles, CA, USA (September 16 - 21, 2018). It is fourteenth edition of conference PSAM.
He presented the paper:
Kovacs, Z. and Hlavac, P.: Hazard curve construction for icing events of overhead power lines
In addition he was a co-author of the paper:
Kanetsyan, G., Amirjanyana, A and Kovacs, Z.: Internal Events Level 1 PSA study
of Armenian NPP Spent Fuel Pools
The PSAM is the conference in risk, risk management, reliability, safety, and associated topics. This world-wide group meets internationally every two years. In September 2018, it had been organised in the United States at the new UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles, CA.
The PSAM conference brings together experts from various industries, research organizations, regulatory authorities and universities in the fields of nuclear, process and chemical industries, etc. The multi-disciplinary conference is aimed to cross-fertilize methods, technologies and ideas for the benefit of all.
Within the years 2016-2018 RELKO Ltd. was involved in the international project focused on Multiunit Probabilistic Safety Assessment led by SAS and EESS section of IAEA. The objective of this project is the development of the methodology for MUPSA and the application of this methodology within the case study.
Mr. Robert Spenlinger has been selected by IAEA to participate on the regional workshop on Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Assessment Aplications, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 June 2018.
Mr. Jakub Kovar has been selected by IAEA to participate on the regional workshop on Application of State-of-the-Art Methodologies and Technologies for Decommissioning, Karlsruhe, Germany, 19-23 March 2018.
Mr. Pavol Hlavac has been selected by IAEA to participate on the regional workshop on Strengthening Capabilities for NPP Safety, Performance and Life Service, Shanghai and Qinshan, China, 19-23 March 2018.
Mr. Pavol Hlavac has been selected by IAEA to participate on the Technical Meeting on the Development of a Methodology for Aggregation of Various Risk Contributors for Nuclear Facilities, IAEA HQ, Vienna, Austria, 26-29 March 2018.
Mr. Zoltan Kovacs has been selected by IAEA to conduct the PSA review of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant within the project ARM902802 Improving the National Regulatory Infrastructure on Nuclear Safety.
Robert Spenlinger has been selected by IAEA to participate on the Technical Meeting on Roles, Responsibilities and Interfaces between Design Authority, Responsible Designers and Technical Support Organizations, London, United Kingdom, 11–13 December 2017.
Jakub Kovar has been selected by IAEA to participate on the regional workshop on PSA methodologies and review practices, 11-15 September, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Jakub Kovar has been selected by IAEA to participate on the regional training course: Regional Training Course No. 3 on Infrastructure Development and Safety Assessment of WWER/PWR with Advanced Safety Features, Obninsk, 17. - 28. 7. 2017
Robert Spenlinger has been selected by IAEA to participate on the workshop: Workshop on Design Modification and Implementation to Enhance Safety and Performance at NPPs, Xiamen, China, 10 - 14 July 2017.
Jakub Kovar has been selected by IAEA to participate on the training course: Practical Training Course on Planning and Implementation of Nuclear Facility Decommissioning, Argonne, United States of America, 24.4 - 5.5.2017.
OECD NEA CSNI WGRISK ANNUAL MEETING
The Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) hold its 2018 Annual Meeting from 7 to 9 March. Slovakia was represented at the meeting by Pavol Hlavac (RELKO) and Jozef Rybar (UJD SR). Pavol Hlavac provided information about the current state of use and development of PSA in Slovakia.
The Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) hold its 2017 Annual Meeting from 8 to 10 March. Slovakia was represented at the meeting by Zoltan Kovacs (RELKO) and Jozef Rybar (UJD SR). Zoltan Kovacs provided information about the current state of use and development of PSA in Slovakia. The technical discussion topic has been focused on extreme weather phenomena. Zoltan Kovacs gave a presentation in this section with a title of “Non-seismic External Event Level 1 and 2 PSA for the WWER440 Type Reactors in Slovakia”.
