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Feb 2010 |
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) Audits at Doosan HF Controls (HFC)
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In October and December 2009, US NRC conducted two audits at HFC, Carrollton, Texas facility. The audits were successful. Majority of the safety and security qualifications of HFC HFC-6000 safety control system were reviewed in details. These included:
i. Safety system qualification in accordance with EPRI TR 107330-1996 guidelines
ii. Security qualification in accordance with NRC Regulatory Guide 1.152, Rev. 2
iii. Safety software qualifications in accordance with EPRI 106439-1996
iv. Quality Assurance Corrective Action Program in related to 10CFR Appendix B program.
The next phase is a Request for Additional Information (RAI) phase, in which NRC will send HFC a formal RAI set of questions and HFC will respond with supporting documents. HFC has received the formal RAI dated February 1, 2010 and has responded dated February 19, 2010. After the RAI responses are finalized, the safety evaluation report (SER) is expected to be released in June 2010.
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Jun 2009 |
TUV SIL3 Certification
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In June 2009, HFC-6000 Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) and Dual Modular Redundant (DMR) architecture were approved by TUV as qualified IEC 61508 SIL3 safety system in the conceptual assessment phase of the certification. (A SIL3 safety system has a 99.9999% of availability.) Main assessment will be performed in the 1st quarter of 2010. HFC is expected to complete the certification by the second quarter of 2010. (The delay was mainly due to the NRC audits during the fourth quarter of 2009 and 1st quarter of 2010. No major system issues held up the certification process.)
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Feb 2009 |
Shin Kori Unit 2 ships on schedule
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Unit 2 equipment for the Shin Kori project began shipping today, on schedule. Shin Kori is part of a four-unit nuclear power generation project taking place in South Korea. This single unit has over 24,000 I/O points using HFControls HFC-6000 control system. No one in the world has as many controllers in the nuclear environment as does HFControls.
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Jan 2008 |
***NEW Contract Award***
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Doosan HF Controls Corporation has received a contract valued at over $2 million to provide two (2) AAC/DG Control Systems. The ECS-1200 platform for non-safety and the HFC6000 for Safety Related Controls will be supplied on four (4) 1000 Mw Nuclear Power Plants to replace the existing legacy AAC Diesel Generator controls. These plants are located in South Korea.
This recent contract award reaffirms our dominance in the Korean nuclear market as the premiere digital control system provider.
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Nov 2007 |
Doosan HF Controls Receives TUV Certification
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Doosan HF Controls Corporation has received TUV certification for the ECS 05B controller for TMR applications and the ECS 06 controller for safety related systems in a 2 out of 3 configuration where the safe state is the de-energized state.
The test results indicate the controllers are suitable for safety related applications up to SIL 1 in reference to IEC 61508, parts 1-7:1998-2000.
A Case Study will soon be available for the project this system was implemented on. If you would like a copy of this Case Study or require further information, contact us at sales@doosan.com.
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Jul 2007 |
New Emergency Contact Number
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Please note the 24 hour Emergency contact number has changed. The NEW number is 214-493-9500. Please make note of this change.
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Jun 2007 |
HFC Published in ISA InTech
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This article was printed in the June issue of ISA InTech magazine. It is a paper we presented at an ISA conference last year. The article illustrates the system we supplied to the Ulchin 5 & 6 Nuclear power plant.
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Jun 2007 |
Qual Cabinet Passes Testing
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HF Controls is pleased to announce the successful completion of third party qualification testing of its HFC-6000 safety grade distributed control system. The systems, scheduled for installation beginning in 2009 at the KHNP Shin-Kori 1-2 and Shin-Wolsong 1-2 nuclear power plants, will employ the latest advances of the already field-proven HFC-6000 hardware-software platform.
The qualification tests successfully verified that the system is capable of surviving the worst credible seismic event as well as being tolerant to potential electrical disturbance fields and ambient thermal variations. The picture below is of the qualification cabinets specifically built for the testing.
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