IEC 63046-2020 Nuclear power plants – Electrical power system – General requirements

IEC 63046-2020 Nuclear power plants – Electrical power system – General requirements. This document: • provides requirements and recommendations for the overall Electrical Power System. In particular, it covers interruptible and uninterruptible Electrical Power Systems including the systems supplying the I&C systems; • is consistent and coherent with IEC 61 51 3. Like IEC 61 51 3, this document also highlights the need for complete and precise requirements, derived from the plant safety goals. Those requirements are prerequisites for generating the comprehensive requirements for the overall Electrical Power System architecture, and for the electrical power supply sub- systems; • has to be considered in conjunction with and at the same level as IEC 61 51 3. These two standards provide a complete framework establishing general requirements for instrumentation, control, and Electrical Power System for Nuclear Power Plants. This document establishes: • the high level specification and requirement to implement a suitable Electrical Power System in a NPP that supports reactor systems important to safety. It also enables electrical energy production providing the transmission grid with active and reactive power and electro-mechanical inertia; • the relationships between: – the plant safety requirements and the architecture of the overall Electrical Power System and its sub-systems (see Figure 1 ) including: a) the contribution to the plant Defence in Depth; b) the independency and redundancy provisions; – the electrical requirements and the architecture of the Electrical Power System and its sub-systems; – the functional requirements and the architecture of the Electrical Power System and its sub-systems; – the requirements associated with the maintenance strategy and the architecture of the Electrical Power System and its sub-systems; • the design of Electrical power sub-systems (e.g. interruptible and uninterruptible); • the requirements for supporting systems of Electrical Power System (HVAC, I&C, etc.); • the Electrical Power System life-cycle framework. This document does not cover the specification of: • I&C systems; • the transmission lines connecting to substations outside the NPP; • electrical equipment requirements already defined in the industrial IEC standards; • electrical power for security systems (e.g., fences, surveillance systems, entrance control); • lighting and socket facility. This document does not consider power production requirements. This figure provides only an example. Various possible arrangements of buses, loads, generators and interconnections would meet the requirements of SSR-2/1 . Furthermore, many elements of the plant system, such as buses that are not important to safety and direct...