WG_6.1 - Monitoring Instrumentation Working Group

Cherie Paugh

This international standard provides criteria for spent fuel pool instrumentation for nuclear power generating stations and other nuclear facilities. The standard applies to water filled spent fuel pools where the water fill is necessary to prevent a release of fission products that exceeds allowed operational limits.

Criteria for variable selection, performance, design, and qualification of accidentmonitoring instrumentation are established in this standard. Included requirements for displayalternatives for accident monitoring instrumentation, documentation of design bases, and use ofportable instrumentation.

This corrigendum incorporates user feedback by providing editorial and minor technical corrections to IEEE Std 497-2002. The corrigendum also incorporates published errata into the document. The stakeholders for the project are 1) organizations designing new nuclear power generating stations, 2) owners of operating nuclear power generating stations, and 3) regulatory agencies.

Criteria are established in this standard for variable selection, performance, design, and qualification of accident monitoring instrumentation, and include requirements for display alternatives for accident monitoring instrumentation, documentation of design bases, and use of portable instrumentation.