Information for participants of the Conference

One can get to Podolsk from Moscow by electric train from the following stations:from the railway station “Kalanchevskaya” (metro station “Komsomolskaya”) – the trip takes an hour and 10 minutes, from the railway station “Kurskaya” (metro station “Kurskaya”) – the trip takes an hour, from the railway station “Tsaritsyno” (metro station “Tsaritsyno”) – the trip takes a half an hour.

One can get to OKB “GIDROPRESS” from Podolsk railway station by buses Nos. 2 or 25 (on the left side of the station following the train movement from Moscow, it is necessary to go through the underpass).

From the airport “Domodedovo” you can reach Podolsk by taxi in 40 min – an hour.

From the airport “Sheremetievo” the way to Podolsk by taxi may take from an hour and a half till 3 hours (subject to the traffic).For foreign participants we booked rooms at the hotel “SunFlower Park” (Moscow).

The hotel “SunFlower Park” address: Kirovogradskaya str., 11, Moscow. (From metro station “Prazhskaya” – 10 min to walk).

Bus transfer between the hotel “SunFlower Park” and OKB “GIDROPRESS” will be provided for participants

during the Conference.

The bus leaves from the hotel for OKB “GIDROPRESS” at 07.30 in the morning.

COMMITTEES of the 10COMMITTEES of the 10thth ISTC “Safety Assurance of NPP with VVER” ISTC “Safety Assurance of NPP with VVER”OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Podolsk, Moscow Region, Russia OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Podolsk, Moscow Region, Russia

16-19 May, 201716-19 May, 2017

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE PROGRAMME COMMITTEECHAIRMAN

VLADIMIR PIMINOVOKB “GIDROPRESS”

CHAIRMAN

ALEXANDER SHUTIKOV JSC “CONCERN ROSENERGOATOM”

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Sergey SOROKINOKB “GIDROPRESS”

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Vladimir PIMINOVOKB “GIDROPRESS”

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERSArif Nesimi KILIC IAEA Jan ZDEBOR SKODA JS, Czech Republic

Jiři ZDÁREK NRI Řež, plc, Czech Republic Francesco D’AURIA University of Pisa –

GRNSPG, Italy

Anatoliy KIRICHENKO WANO, Moscow Center, Russia Jakko Sakari PULLINEN Fennovoima Oy, Finland

Vladimir RAZIN JSC “Atomenergomash”, Russia Vasiliy AKSENOV WANO, Moscow Center,

Russia

Andrey DEMENTIEV JSC “Concern Rosenergoatom”, Russia Peter LAVRENYUK JSC “TVEL”, Russia

Yaroslav SHTROMBAKH NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia Alexander KHAMAZA SEC NRS, Russia

Pavel VEDERNIKOV SPC «CNIITMASH», Russia Georgy KARZOV CRISM “Prometey”, Russia

Alexey DOLGOV JSC “TVEL”, Russia Yury SEMCHENKOV NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia

Alla SOLDATENKOVA OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Russia Alexander ZUBCHENKO OKB “GIDROPRESS”,

Russia

Nikolay MARIEV OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Russia Mikhail NIKITENKO OKB “GIDROPRESS”,

Russia

Valentin MAKHIN OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Russia

Yury BEZRUKOV OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Russia

SECRETARIES of THE COMMITTEES:Kate Serdobintseva OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Russia

Elena Skakun OKB “GIDROPRESS”, Russia

IN THE PROGRAMME:16 May (1st day)

- 9.00 – 10.00 Registration of participants (entrance hall)- 10.00 – 10.20 Opening ceremony (conference hall)- 10.20 – 11.20 Plenary session (conference hall)- 11.20 – 11.40 Coffee break- 11.40 – 13.00 Plenary session (conference hall)- 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch- 14.30 – 15.50 Plenary session (conference hall)- 15.50 – 16.10 Coffee break- 16.10 – 17.10 Plenary session (conference hall)- 17.20 Cheese-and-wine reception (canteen on the 2nd floor)

17 May (2nd day)- 9.00 – 11.00 Presentation of section papers (Nos. 4, 5, 2)- 11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break- 11.20 – 12.40 Presentation of section papers - 12.40 – 13.00 Presentation of poster papers (lobby of the conference hall)- 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch- 14.00 – 15.40 Presentation of section papers - 15.40 – 16.00 Coffee break- 16.00 – 17.40 Presentation of section papers

18 May (3rd day)- 9.00 – 11.00 Presentation of section papers (Nos. 4, 3, 6, 5)- 11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break- 11.20 – 13.00 Presentation of section papers - 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch- 14.00 – 15.40 Presentation of section papers - 15.40 – 16.00 Coffee break- 16.00 – 17.40 Presentation of section papers

19 May (4th day)- 9.00 – 11.00 Presentation of section papers (Nos. 1, 2, 5)- 11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break- 11.20 – 13.00 Presentation of section papers - 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch- 14.00 – 15.00 Summarizing the Conference results. Closing ceremony (conference hall)

Conference rules: presentation of paper (including questions) - 20 minutesPapers of section 2 - 15-20 minutes

16 May, Tuesday (1st day)9.00 – 10.00 Entrance hall Registration of participants

10.00 – 10.20 Conference hall Opening ceremony

Victor Dzhangobegov – Director General of OKB “GIDROPRESS”Alexander Shutikov – Chairman of the Program Committee of the Conference, JSC Concern Rosenergoatom Arif Nesimi KILIC – International Atomic Energy Agency

Conference hall Morning session Plenary session

Chairmen: Alexander Shutikov, Igor Shchekin10.20 – 10.40 Alexander SHUTIKOV JSC Concern Rosenergoatom Role of OKB "GIDROPRESS" in achieving the main goals of the Concern "Rosenergoatom"10.40 – 11.00 Igor SHCHEKIN OKB "GIDROPRESS New challenges and objectives of VVER technology development

11.00 – 11.20 Arif Nesimi KILIC International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria

Challenges facing Nuclear Energy Generation and IAEA Strategies and Activities for the Needs in Design and Operation

11.20 – 11.40 Coffee-break

11.40 – 12.00 Vladimir RAZIN JSC “Atomenergomash” Strategy for the development of the machine-building division of the State Corporation Rosatom and the place of OKB GIDROPRESS in it.

12.00 – 12.20 Alexander KHAMAZA SEC NRS On compliance of the Russian power units with new generation VVERs with the current international approaches to safety

12.20 – 12.40 Yury IVANOV JSC ASE Basic principles of the ASE Group of Companies for enhancing efficient interaction of participants involved in NPP construction projects in order to upgrade quality and reduce construction costs

12.40 – 13.00 Alexey DOLGOV JSC TVEL Fuel for nuclear power plants with VVER: trends of development13.00 - 14.30 LUNCHConference

hall Afternoon session Plenary session Chairmen

14.30 - 14.50 Jiri ZDAREK UJV Rez a.s. , Czech Republic In Vessel Melt Retention Strategy for SA Mitigation for Existing VVER 1000 – Present Status of Research and Tests.

14.50 - 15.10 Georgy KARZOV CRISM «Prometey» Materials for prospective water-cooled water-moderated power reactors15.10 - 15.30 Yaroslav SHTROMBAH NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Materials research in support of service life extension of VVER-440 first generation reactors to 60 years 15.30 - 15.50 Leonid BOLSHOV IBRAE RAS Prevention and management of severe accidents at modern NPP with water-water reactors15.50 - 16.10 Coffee-break

16.10 - 16.30 Roman ZDEBOR SKODA JS a.s. , Czech Republic Developments of ŠKODA JS for VVER reactors

16.30 – 16.50 Dr. Francesco D’AURIA University of Pisa, Italy Conjugating ALARA, BEPU, Safety Margins and Independent Assessment in Nuclear Reactor Safety16.50 – 17.10 Discussion of papers

17.20 Cheese-and-wine reception

17 May, Wednesday (2nd day)Conference hall

Conference hall Morning session Section 4: Issues of operation, monitoring and control, diagnostics, modernization and life extension of operating NPPs

Chairmen:

9.00 - 9.20 Anatoly BOGACHEV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Resource management under delayed strain corrosion cracking

9.20 - 9.40 Anatoly BOGACHEV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Requirements for monitoring equipment and piping movements to control

resource

9.40 - 10.00 Lyudmil NEDELCHEV Kozloduy NPP PLC, Bulgaria Residual life time for RPV type VVER-1000 with applying criteria cold brittleness for metal from reactor.

10.00 - 10.20 Artem NAGORNYY OKB "GIDROPRESS" Resource management using SACOR in terms of temperature effects on equipment and pipelines after phase extension power life

10.20 - 10.40 Kirill TSVETKOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Results of activities on justification of service life extension of VVER-1000 RP

10.40 - 11.00 Anastasiya MERKUN  OKB "GIDROPRESS" Construction of ageing functions for management of VVER-1000 and VVER-1200 RP RCS life

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee-break

11.20 - 11.40 Sergey KUZNETSOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" A package of measures aimed at for extension of service life of VVER-440 reactors

11.40 - 12.00 Azamat GAZETDINOV SEC NRS Recommendations for implementation of radiation loading monitoring for VVER equipment during prediction of

residual lifetime in compliance with the regulatory documents

12.00 - 12.20 Denis ZHURKO NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Acquisition of experimental data for substantiation of life extension of 5 and 6 reactor pressure vessels of the Kozloduy NPP

12.20 - 12.40 Ladislav PECINKA UJV Rez a.s. , Czech Republic LTO problems of the VVER 440/213 and VVER 1000/320 reactor core barrels

12.40 –13.00 Presentation of poster papers in the Conference hall

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCHConference

hall Afternoon session Section 4: Issues of operation, monitoring and control, diagnostics, modernization and life extension of operating NPPsChairmen:

14.00 - 14.20 Mikhail KORNEEV FSUE “Mining and Chemical Combine” Life extension of water-cooled VVER-1000 SNF storage facility (hot-1) at FSUE “MCC” site

14.20 - 14.40 Dr. Ante BAKIĆ INETEC, Croatia Innovative NDE solution for inspection of buried pipelines in primary circuit of NPP14.40 - 15.00 Sergey KOKOLEV ООО «НПЦ «ЭХО+» The modern automated equipment and methods of ultrasonic inspection for VVER type reactor

15.00 - 15.20 Pavel SAMARIN SPC ECHO+ Ltd. Certification of the ultrasonic inspection technique for austenite and composite welded joints in pipelines on the NPP

15.20 - 15.40 Sergey KOKOLEV SPC ECHO+ Ltd. Certification of system and technique for ultrasonic inspection with the full cycle of automation15.40 – 16.00 Coffee-break

16.00 - 16.20 Vyacheslav AFANASYEV JSC Izhorskiye Zavody Substantiation of strength of universal container, assigned for transportation and storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

(SNF) for VVER-1000, VVER-1200, in emergency conditions

16.20 – 16.40 Arif Nesimi KILIC International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria Foreign Material Management during Design of Nuclear Power Plants

16.40 – 17.00 Nadejda MILTO NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Сalculation of RP plant power on the basis of signals from in-core detectors. Analysis of operation experience17.00 - 17.20 Gennady ERSHOV JSC ASE Methods for NPP power units readiness analyzing 17.20 - 17.40 Yuriy SAUNIN JSC Atomtechenergo The verification of method for determining the weighted mean coolant temperature in the primary circuit hot legs

of VVER-1000 reactor plants

17 May, Wednesday (2nd day)Room 111

Room 111 Morning session Section 5: Material science, strength and water chemistryChairman: Boris GUSEV

9.00 - 9.20 Victor KOSTYLEV CRISM «Prometey» New approach for calculations on brittle fracture resistance of metal support structure of reactors WWER-440 (В-179, В-230)

9.20 - 9.40 Valentin FOMENKO CRISM «Prometey» Determination of j-integral contour size for RPV structural integrity assessment on brittle fracture criterion under PTS

9.40 - 10.00 Alexey FROLOV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Influence of irradiation temperature on the mechanisms of radiation embrittlement

10.00 - 10.20 Anna CHERNOBAEVA NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Development and substantiation of the procedure of post-annealing repeated radiation embrittlement of VVER-

440 reactor pressure vessel materials

10.20 - 10.40 Zinaida BUKINA NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Contribution of a non-reinforcing mechanism to the flux effect and the radiation embrittlement of steels of the VVER-1000 reactor vessels

10.40 - 11.00 Valentina PAPINA NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Advancement of the forecast dependence of weld material radiation embrittlement for VVER-440 and VVER-1000 rector pressure vessels

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee-break

11.20 - 11.40 Dmitriy RATUSHEV Research Centre of Trade Company OMZ-Izhora LLC

Research of segregation in large size ingots as it applies to production of workpieces for equipment of modern NPP

11.40 - 12.00 Tatiana TITOVA Research Centre of Trade Company OMZ-Izhora LLC

Study of non-metallic inclusions in metal of 15Х2НМФАa) steel reactor vessel blanks depending on the production technology of large ingots

12.00 - 12.20 Vladimir NOVIKOV JSC NPO "CNIITMASh" Problems of assessment of contamination responsible workpieces NPP by non-metallic inclusions

12.20 - 12.40 Dmitriy TOLSTYKH JSC NPO "CNIITMASh" Increase in the complex of properties of vessel steels due to the content reduction of non-metallic inclusions and optimization of their morphology

12.40 - 13.00 Presentation of poster papers in the Conference hall13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

Room 111 Afternoon session Section 5: Material science, strength and water chemistryChairman:

14.00 - 14.20 Pavel STYAZHKIN JSC ATOMPROEKT Thermodynamic analysis of the metals oxidation at NPP and thermal power plants in steam

14.20 - 14.40 Ihor MIRZOV UJV Rez a.s. , Czech Republic Peculiarities of the stress-strain calculation of the WWER-1000 core baffle

14.40 - 15.00 Vladimir MATKOVSKY OKB "GIDROPRESS" Analytical and semi-analytical solutions FOR underclad crack problems

15.00 - 15.20 Yuriy TSAPKO FSUE NITI Water treatment at low-power nuclear power facilities

15.20 - 15.40 Anton GAVRILOV JSC ATOMPROEKT Modeling of water chemical condition of secondary circuit of nuclear power plant with WWER15.40 - 16.00 Coffee-break16.00 - 16.20 Boris GUSEV FSUE NITI Analysis of corrosion condition of the primary circuit equipment of the low-power nuclear facility

16.20 – 16.40 Valeriy BARANENKO JSC "VNIIAES" The use of software tools for calculating corrosion pipelines and equipment of NPP power units

16.40 – 17.00 Valentin FOMENKO CRISM «Prometey» New method to predict the temperature dependence of fracture toughness «Advanced unified curve»

17.00 - 17.20 Boris TARASOV NRNU MEPhI Сorrosion behavior of tolerance nuclear fuel components - steel and uranium silicide (U3SI2) in high-parameter water

17.20 - 17.40 Vasiliy SUVOROVObninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering NRNU MEPhI

Study of hydrogen generation in the interaction of reactor materials with water coolant

17 May, Wednesday (2nd day)

Room 114

Room 114 Morning session Section 1 : Development and verification of computer codes for safety substantiationChairman: Vladimir ARTEMOV

9.00 - 9.20 Alexander KOZLACHKOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Risk-informed method for the analysis of VVER RP accident processes"

9.20 - 9.40 Sergey LAPTEV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Combination of deterministic and probabilistic approaches for assessment of realistic success criteria of VVER RP emergency protection system

9.40 - 10.00 Vladislav VYSKREBTSOV Machine-building University To the question on efficiency of use of packages of applied programs in calculations of hydrodynamic

processes

10.00 - 10.20 Yuriy SHVETSOV OKBM, Nizhny Novgorod Analysis of LBLOCA for Introduction of TVSA-12 on «Kozloduy» NPP using codes RELAP/SCDAPSIM/MOD3.4 and KORSAR/BR

10.20 - 10.40 Oleg SEMENOVICH JIPNR–Sosny of NASB, Minsk, Belarus Subchannel codes for thermal hydraulics analysis of water cooled reactor

10.40 - 11.00 Andrey RYZHOV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Simulation of influence of the gap size (between fuel assemblies) onto power field distribution in the core of VVER reactors

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee-break

11.20 - 11.40 Alexey PRONIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" Testing of SW CPCTFA using data on DNB in 7 rods' FA

11.40 - 12.00 Vladimir ARTEMOV FSUE NITI SAPHIR_95&RC_VVER package improvement for justification of VVER neutronic characteristics

12.00 - 12.20 Alexey KUZNETSOV FSUE NITI Calculation of subchannel power density in 'FULL-CORE' benchmarks for VVER-440 and MIDICORE for VVER-1000 using the SAPFIR_95&RC_VVER program code

12.20 - 12.40 Anastasiya SINEGRIBOVA OKB "GIDROPRESS" Development of distributed neutron-physical and thermal-hydraulic model of FA in the software package

KORSAR/GP12.40 –13.00 Presentation of poster papers in the Conference hall

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

Room 114 Afternoon session Section 1 : Development and verification of computer codes for safety substantiationChairman: Alexander KOZLACHKOV

14.00 - 14.15 Vladimir SHCHEKOLDIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" Main results of participation of Russian organizations in international project «ATLAS»

14.15 - 14.30 Alexander SKIBIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" Application of locally one-dimensional methods for calculation of spatial hydraulics at VVER RP

14.30 - 14.45 Alexander TIKHOMIROV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Modelling of critical experiments at LR-0 using code TDMCC

14.45 - 15.00 Mikhail SUSLOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Development of justification method for emergency instructions for VVER RP15.00 - 15.20 Daria

KAMENSKAYA IBRAE RAS Numerical simulation of heat transfer in gas cavity in core catcher

15.20 - 15.40 Yuriy SHMELKOV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Simulation of fission products release and their transport inside the containment by MAVR-TA code during severe accident at NPP AES-2006

15.40 – 16.00 Coffee-break

16.00 - 16.20 Mikhail ZATEVAKHIN JSC ATOMPROEKT Calculation of formation and withdrawal of aerosol particles in a severe accident at nuclear power plants

16.20 – 16.40 Sergey SEMENOV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Deterministic procedure of searching conservative scenarios for accidental regimes of VVER

16.40 – 17.00 Pavel GORDIENKO NRC «Kurchatov Institute» International benchmark on experimental data of Rostov NPP unit 2 within the expert group EGMPEBV OECD NEA

17.00 – 17.20 Sergey GOLOLOBOV NRNU MEPhI Method for estimating of uncertainty of NPP safety parameters and NEI reliability analysis

17.20 - 17.40 Maxim UVAKIN  OKB "GIDROPRESS" Extension of functional capabilities of the code TRAP-KS owing to connection of outside module of main controllers

18 May, Thursday (3rd day)Conference hall

Conference hall Morning session Section 4: Issues of operation, monitoring and control, diagnostics, modernization and life extension of operating NPPs

Chairmen:

9.00 - 9.20 Arthur BAGDASARYAN Kalinin NPP Monitoring of the reactor and steam generators by automated means. Development prospects

9.20 - 9.40 Leonid VOLKOV OOO NPP “Alfa-Diagnostica” Further development of encapsulation technology used for defective heat-exchange tubes in steam generators of WWER (Water-Water Energetic Reactor)

9.40 - 10.00 Maxim TSUKANOV JSC NPO "CNIITMASh" Development of procedure manual UT of welded joints between coolant header and steam generator new design

10.00 - 10.20 Yury KUTDYUSOV NICE "Centrenergo" Separation tests results of steam generators of the power unit 6 of Novovoronezh NPP-2 during the commissioning

10.20 - 10.40Roman KRAUTSCHNEIDER

Institute of Applied Mechanics Brno, Czech Republic Drainage and blowdown nozzle weld failures assessment on NPP Temelin steam generators

10.40 - 11.00 Arkadiy KAMYSHEV ENCOTES, Ltd. A comparative analysis of calculated and instrumental methods in application to evaluation of the stress-strain

state of the coolant manifold node pipe of steam generators PGV-1000 MKP under thermal and force load11.00 - 11.20

11.20 - 11.40 Yury KUTDYUSOV NICE "Centrenergo"Results of implementation and dynamic tests of the upgraded level measurement system on the steam generator 4 of the Kalinin NPP power unit No. 1 using single-chamber vessels with a base of 1600 mm

11.40 - 12.00 Vladimir PAVELKO JSC DIAPROM Vibration condition of the main equipment of the MCC VVER-1200 unit 6 Novovoronezh NPP

12.00 - 12.20 Victor NIKIFOROV NII AEM Information passport equipment of nuclear power plants. Maintenance repair campaigns

12.20 – 12.40 Alexader PRIPUTNEV JSC "Atomtechenergo" Means of monitoring and visual presentation of loading process of the standard core at the test leader

workplace

12.40 –13.00 Vadim SKOROBOGATOV MEPHI Development techniques of simulation transient phenomena in the electric equipment of the NPP, for the

abnormal and normal modes of operation and their program implementation13.00 - 14.00 LUNCHConference

hall Afternoon session Section 4: Issues of operation, monitoring and control, diagnostics, modernization and life extension of operating NPPsChairman:

14.00 - 14.20 Artem ERAK NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Contribution of brittle fracture initiation and propagation processes in fracture toughness parameters of VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel specimens

14.20 - 14.40 Ante BAKIC INETEC, Croatia Advanced System for VVER Steam Generator Inspection

14.40 - 15.00 Alexander KRYUKOV SEC «NRS» Assessment of the effectiveness low-temperature "wet" annealing for VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessels

15.00 - 15.20 Valeriy SEMISHKIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" Ageing mechanisms of VVER-1000 and VVER – 1200 RP RCS сomponents

15.20 - 15.40 Andrey MINKIN CRISM «Prometey» Experience of measurements and analysis of changes in the geometry of core baffles of russian reactors VVER-1000

15.40 – 16.00 Coffee-break16.00 - 16.20 Ivan MAKSIMOV JSC DIAPROM Statistics on Acoustic Effects Registered by LPMS at State-of-the-Art NPP Units Equipped with WWER

16.20 – 16.40 Valeriy KHAYRETDINOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Methods and criteria of assessment of strength, durability and reliability of designs during NPP unit

commissioning

16.40 – 17.00 Konstantin PROSKURYAKOV MPEI (TU) Possibility of vibroacoustical resonances in severe accidents

17.00 – 17.20 Alexader SEMENICHIN JSC "Atomtechenergo" Testing of ICNS’s information diagnose system on unit №1 NVNPP-2

17.20 – 17.40 Alexader PRIPUTNEV JSC "Atomtechenergo" Functional checkout results of NFCE-01 automatic power factor correction by various perturbations of

Novovoronezh NPP-2 Power Unit No. 1 active zone parameters

18 May, Thursday (3rd day)Room 111

Room 111 Morning session Section 2: Issues of design-engineering solutions substantiation and experimental support during NPP designing and commissioningChairman:

9.00 – 9.15 Valery ASTAKHOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Analysis of melt-coolant energetic interaction in the course of the in-vessel phase of severe accidents on NPP with VVER

9.15 – 9.30 Ivan MELNIKOV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Simulation of corium pool behavior on RPV bottom under severe accident for VVER-10009.30 – 9.45 Alexey ARJAEV JSC "Atomtechenergo" LBB concept as effective tool for NPP unit life cycle parameters management9.45 – 10.00 Anton CHEKIN JSC “Atomenergoproekt” Probabilistic safety assessment level 2 Kursk-NPP-2

10.00 – 10.20 Nikolay MAKHUTOV Russian Academy of Sciences Protectability analysis of nuclear power plants with water-moderated nuclear reactor from heavy disasters

10.20 – 10.40 Gennadiy YERSHOV JSC ASE

10.40 – 11.00 Boris VOLKOV LLC «Forsite Pro» Usage of the system engineering methodology for ensuring safety at all stages of the life cycle of nuclear power plants

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee-break

11.20 – 11.40 Yury EGOROV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Testing of fuel assemblies and CPS drive SHEM-3 for seismic resistance

11.40 – 12.00 Alexey SHCHUGOREV JSC "Atomtechenergo" Experimental and computational confirmation of the seismic resistance of the branched out pipelines of NPPs

taking into account the influence of the geometry of hanger-support system

12.00 – 12.20 Alexander SARATOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Experimental and calculational justification of seismic resistance of VVER-1000/1200 RP equipment by the

results of commissioning tests and measurements

12.20 – 12.40 Andrey MOROZOVSSC RF Institute for Physics and Power Engineering named after A.I. Leypunsky

Experimental study of effect of process in the containment on operation of Novovoronezh NPP-2 passive safety systems on large-scale test facility

12.50 – 13.00 Anton FISKOV JSC ATOMPROEKT THE study of the behavior of coatings based on silica-organic composition OS 51-03 of the containment during severe accidents at NPP

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

Room 111 Afternoon session Section 2: Issues of design-engineering solutions substantiation and experimental support during NPP designing and commissioningChairman:

14.00 - 14.15 Artem NOSENKO OKB "GIDROPRESS" Studies of fuel rods vibration of VVER RP advanced fuel assemblies

14.15 - 14.30 Artem NOSENKO OKB "GIDROPRESS" Calculation and experimental studies of the hydraulic characteristics of the model

14.30 - 14.45 Victor MODESTOV ФГАОУ ВО «СПбПУ» Анализ живучести и отказоустойчивости железобетонных конструкций реакторного отделения АЭС

14.45 - 15.00 Yury NOVOZHILOV KADFEM CIS Development of the technique for simulation of the impact of commercial aircraft on reinforced concrete

structures using LS-DYNA

15.00 - 15.20 Yuriy DOMORAD JIPNR–Sosny of NASB, Minsk, Belarus Evaluation of nuclear safety criterion fulfilment at the transportation of fresh fuel assemblies WWER-1200 reactor

15.20 – 15.40 Stepan PRIYMAK FSUE SRI SIA LUCH Temperature control reliability improvement of NPPs with VVER15.40 – 16.00 Coffee-break

16.00 - 16.20 Alexander BAYKOV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Modeling of the processes of asymmetric boric acid injection, implemented during the start-up tests at Kudankulam NPP

16.20 – 16.40 Vladimir SOROKIN JIPNR–Sosny of NASB, Minsk, Belarus Poisoning assesment for hydrogen passive autocatalytic recombiner

16.40 – 17.00 Stepan PRIYMAK FSUE SRI SIA LUCH Dynamic methods and means of monitoring the nuclear power plants temperature conditions

17.00 - 17.20 Ivan LAVRENYUK FSUE RFNC-VNIITF Experimental study of processes of combustion and change of burning modes of the hydrogen-containing vapor-gas mixtures under conditions typical for severe accidents at NPPs with VVER

17.20 - 17.40 Ruslan MINIBAEV JSC Atomenergoproekt Evaluation of allowable outage time in various configurations of safety systems for NPP unit on power

18 May, Thursday (3rd day)Room 114

Room 114 Morning session Section 7 : Development, verification and application of CFD computer codes in nuclear engineeringChairman: Vasiliy VOLKOV

9.00 – 9.20 OlegKUDRYAVTSEV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Development of thermal-hydraulic CFD model of VVER-1200 reactor

9.20 – 9.40 Vasiliy VOLKOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" CFD modeling of the 37 rod bundle experiment

9.40 – 10.00 Vladimir DANICHEV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Numerical calculation of a subcooled boiling flow in a rod bundle and verification of the CFD code GIDR-3M

10.00 – 10.20 Alexander BARINOV OKBM Afrikantov Computational and experimental simulation of the processes of mixing of in-reactor coolant flows in a large-scale

model of the reactor vessel 10.20 – 10.40 Sergey BIKEZIN NRC «Kurchatov Institute» CFD calculation of the temperature in the head of fuel assemblies of VVER-2006

10.40 – 11.00 Yuriy YUDOV FSUE “Alexandrov NITI” Verification of the KORSAR/CFD computer code against experimental data on boron mixing in the VVER-1000 model

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee-break11.20 – 11.40 Alexey KRUTIKOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Verification of reactor CFD model by the results of quick boron injection system test

11.40 – 12.00 Anna LUBINA NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Validation of CFD-models of ANSYS FLUENT code for one-phase flows in simple-form channels

12.00 – 12.20 Roman ROMANOV OKBM Afrikantov Verification Results of CFD Code and 1D System Code Coupling Technology Using Analytical Tests

12.20 – 12.40 Vitaliy KOTOV JSC ATOMPROEKT 3D calculation of hydrogen-air-steam mixture combustion within the framework of substantiation of safety of nuclear power plant with WWER

12.40 –13.00 Vladimir FOLOMEEV Sarov Engineering Center STAR-CCM+ in power engineering

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

Room 114 Afternoon session Section 6 : Innovative reactor plantsChairman: Valentin MAKHIN, Alexander GLEBOV

14.00 - 14.20 Valentin MAKHIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" Conceptual provisions for water-cooled reactor with supercritical parameters (review of foreign and Russian SCWR developments)

14.20 - 14.40 Valentin MAKHIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" The concept of water-cooled reactor plant power unit with supercritical coolant parameters and a fast-resonant neutron spectrum (VVER- SCWR)

14.40 - 15.00 Ahmed BAISOV NRNU "MEPhI" Analysis of experimental data on heat transfer to supercritical water forced flow in annular channels and rod bundles

15.00 - 15.20 Alexander GLEBOV FSUE “SSC RF IPPE” Use of reactors VVER-SCWR for low-power NPP

15.20 - 15.40 Alan BALIKOEV Scientific Production Association CNIITMASH JSC Development of high-strength and heat-resistant steel for the SCWR type VVER’s

15.40 – 16.00 Coffee-break16.00 - 16.20 Alexander GLEBOV FSUE “SSC RF IPPE” Valuation of advanced nuclear power units at the pre-development stage

16.20 – 16.40 Sergey BAZYUK FSUE SRI SIA LUCH Investigation of corrosion characteristics of standard and promising fuel rod claddings for light water reactors under LOCA conditions

16.40 – 17.40 ДИСКУССИЯ на тему ВВЭР-СКД

19 May, Friday (4th day)Conference hall

Conference hall Morning sessionSection 4: Issues of operation, monitoring and control, diagnostics, modernization and life extension of operating NPPs

Chairmen:

9.00 – 9.20 Mariya BADANOVA OKB "GIDROPRESS" Strain measurement converters for commissioning and in-service inspection at NPP

9.20 – 9.40 Vitaliya KAVUN SEC NRS The development of VVER-440 core models for supporting of information and analytic center

9.40 – 10.00 Alexey PUZAKOVObninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering NRNU MEPhI

Neural network application for early detection of abnormalities in NPP equipment condition

10.00 – 10.20 Pavel MEZENTZEV JSC "Atomtechenergo" Joint tests of the ARMR and the ECSR on NPP power units10.20 – 10.40 Nikita MATVEEV OKBM Protecting the ventilation ducts of nuclear power plants from air shock wave effects

10.40 – 11.00 Igor SHMAL JSC Atomenergoproekt Overview of work performed in the area of thermophysics11.00 – 11.20 Coffee-break11.20 – 11.40 Ante BAKIC INETEC, Croatia Sludge deposit mapping for steam generators

11.40 – 12.00 Denis KOCHETKOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Breadboarding of annealing technology for VVER-1000 reactor vessel

12.00 – 12.20 Oleg GLAZKOV MEPHI Prospects of application computation measurement system diagnostic screen 3D for VVER

12.20 – 12.40 Stanislav PANTYUSHIN OKB "GIDROPRESS" Development and computational assessment of in-vessel melt retention system for operating and developing NPP

with RP WWER

12.40 –13.00

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH14.00 - 15.00 Summarizing the Conference results. Closing ceremony (conference hall)

19 May, Friday (4th day)Room 111

Room 111 Morning session Section 5 : Material science, strength and water chemistry Chairman: Alexander Zubchenko

9.00 – 9.20 Aleksander KUKUSHKIN JSC "VNIIAM" Film-forming amines in the nuclear industry. Innovative technology

9.20 – 9.40 Boris GUROVICH NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Specific features of structural-phase changes in zirconium alloy fuel rod cladding under conditions of irradiation creep

9.40 – 10.00 Sergey BUBYAKIN NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Study of local normal stress values for cylindrical specimens with circular notch of VVER-type reactor pressure vessels tested for uniaxial static tension in different states

10.00 – 10.20 Michal KAPUSŇÁK VUJE, a.s. , Slovak Republic Small punch test application for evaluation of the initial mechanical properties of VVER-440/213 type reactor pressure vessel materials

10.20 – 10.40 Sergey MARKOVScientific Production Association CNIITMASH JSC, Moscow, Russia

Reference steel 15Ch2NMFAA for promising VVER reactors

10.40 – 11.00 Svetlana IVANOVA NRNU MEPhI Development of methods to increase safety and prolong operation life of active core components for evolutionary and innovative light-water reactors of generation 3+ and reactors of new 4th generation

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee-break

11.20 – 11.40 Dmitry MALTSEV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Structural studies of materials of VVER-440 reactor vessel base metal after long-term operation and reduction annealing

11.40 – 12.00 Alexander YASHIN NRNU MEPhI Increase of VVER fuel claddings corrosion resistance in accidental conditions by modification of near-surface material layers

Room 111 Section 7 : Development, verification and application of CFD computer codes in nuclear engineeringChairman:

12.20 – 12.40 Luka GOLIBRODO OKB «GIDROPRESS» Evaluation of humidity of steam generated by steam generator PGV-1000MKO of optimized structure based on CFD simuation of mass transfer in steam space

12.40 –13.00 Artem NECHAEV OKB «GIDROPRESS» Application of movable meshes for solving multi-liquid problems13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH14.00 - 15.00 Summarizing the Conference results. Closing ceremony (conference hall)

19 May, Friday (4th day)Room 114

Room 114 Morning session Section 3 : Fuel, fuel utilization, core physicsChairman:

9.00 – 9.20 Vitaliy SHULIMOV JSC "SSC RIAR" Study of high-burnup VVER-1000 fuel rod behavior under loca conditions. experiment MIR-LOCA/72.9.20 – 9.40 Mihail KALUGIN NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Aspects of the use of different types of regenerated fuel (RUF, REMIX, MOX) in high power VVER

9.40 – 10.00 Aleksander MALAKHOV OAO MSZ, Elektrostal, Russia Construction development, design and experimental study of VVER-1000 FA ADF-2 characteristics

10.00 – 10.20 Ladislav PECINKA UJV Rez a.s. , Czech Republic Fretting wear of the TVSA-T fuel assemblies Zr cladding10.20 – 10.40 Yuriy ZVONAREV NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Numerical analysis of accident tolerant fuel efficiency for VVER-120010.40 – 11.00 Valeriy ADEEV Kola NPP Operation features of uranium-gadolinium fuel assemblies of VVER-440 reactors11.00 – 11.20 Coffee-break

11.20 – 11.40 Stanislav ANTONOV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Repeated operation of fuel assemblies in the VVER-1000 core after their holding in the spent fuel pool

11.40 – 12.00 Stanislav TSIRIN OAO MSZ, Elektrostal Study of strip-type spacer grids characteristics while VVER FA manufacture

12.00 – 12.20 Lyudmila ARTEMOVA FSUE “Alexandrov NITI” Evaluation of effective fuel temperature in modelling reactivity accidents using the integrated neutronic and

thermohydraulic codes

12.20 – 12.40 Albina GATAULLINA Tomsk Polytechnic University Applying dispersion fuel with intermetallic matrix in the VVER

12.40 –13.00 Andrey KUZNETSOV VNIINM Simulation of behavior of the VVER-1000 fuel rod spring stopper using the computer technology MSC.MARC

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH14.00 - 15.00 Summarizing the Conference results. Closing ceremony (conference hall)

POSTER PAPERS17 May, Wednesday (2nd day)

NAME ORGANIZATION PAPER Section

1. Alexey KUZNETSOV FSUE “Alexandrov NITI” Software for preparation of the calculation models and the analysis of the obtained calculation results of subchannel power density in the SAPFIR_95&RC_VVER package 1

2. Anton DEMEKHIN OKB «GIDROPRESS» Assessment of coefficients of VVER Reactor reactivity under the conditions with power grid frequency control for the use in safety analyses 1

3. Alexander LITYSHEV OKB «GIDROPRESS» Development and computational substantiation of strategy for NVAES-2 SAMG using CC SOCRAT 2

4. Dmitriy GASPAROV OKB "GIDROPRESS" Sensitivity analysis for modeling of severe accidents with CC SOCRAT/B1 2

5. Yuriy MUKHRYAKOV JSC ASE Research of influence of actions for decrease in effects of beyond design basis accidents on the frequency of damage of core on the example of the power unit No. 3 of the Kalinin NPP 4

6. Mihail KORNEEV FGUP "Mining and Chemical Combine"

Grounds for potential to provide long-term storage at water-cooled HOT-1 storage facility, FGUP "MCC", of VVER-1000 SNF having higher initial enrichment and burnup 4

7. Konstantin PROSKURYAKOV MPEI (TU) Interdisciplinary approach for modeling and calculation of propagation waves pressurized fluid in the pipeline

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8. Yury KUTDYUSOV NICE CENTRENERGOResults of development and testing of the head sample of the Contamination Visual Monitoring System of the PGV-1000 (M) inter-tube space from the secondary side with remote control of the video endoscope working body.

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9. Vladimir KOMOLOV OKB «GIDROPRESS» A proposal of the Russian side to determine the temperature characteristic T0 of equipment and pipelines materials of the "Hanhikivi-1" NPP reactor plant 5

10. Oleg KOSTYUHIN OKB «GIDROPRESS» Transition to steel 10ГН2МФА during RCP set production 5

11. Anatoly BLAGOVECHTCHENSKI

Naval Politechnical Institute MESC of Navy Naval Academy On prospects of power unit creation with VVER of medium power 6

12. Vyacheslav GLOTOV IBRAE Large-eddy simulation using cabaret scheme of turbulent heat transfer in a pipe flow of lead coolant 7

13. Alexey KRUTIKOV OKB «GIDROPRESS» Development of CFD model of RCP set 7

14. Andrey KUZNETSOV VNIINM Simulation of behavior of the VVER-1000 fuel rod spring stopper using the computer technology MSC.MARC

Be attentive, please! There may be changes in the programme!