Hitachi's Project Management Experience on Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract

Given its commitment to state-of-the-art digital technology developments, Hitachi has experienced many I&C refurbishment projects for Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) as well as new build projects for Advanced BWR (ABWR) applying plant-wide DCS. One of the key points for the successful deployment of a DCS is efficient and effective project management at each project phase. Hitachi has experienced two project management models for new build projects: (1) two separate vendors are responsible for NSP and BOP, and (2) one vendor is responsible for both portions. This paper addresses Hitachi's project management experience and solutions in both cases and their possible application to future new build projects.