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Operations Documentation Flashcards

1
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What is the external document hierarchy?

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  1. Regulatory Documents (federal and provincial regulations/licenses).
  2. Standards and Codes (CNSC Standards, CSA Standard N286-12, other Standards and Codes (ISO, ASME, etc.))
  3. Corporate Policies
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What are the obligations of workers under the safety and control act?

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  1. Use equipment, devices, facilities and clothing to protect the environment, people, determining radiation doses/dose rates in a responsible manner.
  2. Comply with measures established to protect the environment, people, security, and control radiation doeses to people and/or the environment.
  3. Inform supervisor of increase in risk to the environment or safety of people, to security, failure to comply with regulations, the act of sabatoge, or the unauthorized release of a radioactive./hazardous substance to the environment.
  4. Observe and obey all notices and warning signs in accordance with Radiation Protection Regulations.
  5. Take all reasonable precautions to ensure your own safety, safety of others, protection of the environment, protection of the public, and the maintenance of security.
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What is the internal document hierarchy?

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  1. Governing Documents (ex. Operating Policies and Principles, Design Documents)
  2. Process Reference Documents
  3. Reference Documents & Station Instructions
  4. Departmental Procedures
  5. Records
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What is the PLNGS vision?

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Proudly provide our customers with SAFE, RELIABLE, GREEN ELECTRICITY.

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What is the PLNGS mission?

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Sustainable World Class Performance, On Purpose

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What is the PLNGS tier 1 document?

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The Nuclear Management Manual (NMM) which describes the management system, high-level policies, principles and processes through which the station achieves it’s mission, goals and performance objectives.

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What is an operator burden?

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An equipment deficiency or plant condition that during normal operation will require an operator to perform compensatory actions.

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What is an operator workaround?

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An equipment deficiency or plant condition that during abnormal or emergency operations will require an operator to perform compensotaory actions.

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What is a compensatory action?

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Actions taken by production personnel instead of, or in addition to normal actions.

These actions have the potential to induce a plant transient or impede the production personnels ability to effectivey respond according to plant procedure’s.

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What are the minidot colours used on Mylars and what do they stand for?

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  • Blue- device config is documented by a PSCR
  • Yellow- device is throttled
  • Red- device position allows flow
  • Green- device position does not allow flow
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What are the coulours and meanings of the 1x3” stickers that can be applied to Mylars?

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  • Blue- a PSCR is installed
  • Red- a WCD is installed
  • Yellow- temporary discrepency between the system and Mylar
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What does a step-by-step procedure entail?

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A step-by-step procedure must have a step read and understood prior to starting, requires proper placekeeping, must be at the work location, and requires a sign-off after step completion.

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What circumstance demands a step-by-step procedure be used?

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A step-by-step procedure must be used for complex or infrequent work which consequences of incorrect action are immediate and possibly irreversible impact on safety, production, or reliability.

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What does an In-Hand procedure entail?

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An In-Hand procedure is required to be open at the work location to the appropriate page, and may be periodically reviewed to ensure understanding of a step or group of steps.

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What circumstance demands an In-Hand procedure be used?

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In-Hand procedures are used for complex or infrequent activities for which the consequences of an improper action are not immediate and not irreversible.

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When is a For Information procedure used?

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A For Information procedure is used as reference material for use or training, but is not necessarily required at the worksite.

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How should equipment in the Reactor Building be tagged/labelled?

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Without use of paper, plastic, stickers or placards with adhesive. Identification should be done with metallic (non-aluminum tags).

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What colour are danger signs required to be (text and background)?

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Danger signs are required to be white letters on a red background.

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What colour are warning signs required to be (letters and background)?

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Warning signs are required to have black letters on a yellow background.

20
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What colour are Single Point Vulnerability signs required to be (letters and background)?

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SPV signs are required to have black lettering on orange backgrounds.

21
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What does a Single Point Vulnerability represent?

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A single point vulnerability is a device whose failure results in immediate automatic turbine or reactor trip or unavoidable shutdown within 24 hours.

22
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What colour is used to mark fire equipment locations?

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Red

23
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What colour marks areas in the plant with telephones mounted?

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Yellow

24
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What is the maximum amount of hours personnel may work?

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16 hours with SS approval.
(2 consequitive 16 hour shifts not allowed).

25
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What is the maximum number of consequitive 12.5 hour shifts allowed?

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6

26
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What is the minimum rest required after working 2 consequitive night shifts or 5 or more consequitive day shifts?

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47.5 hours

27
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What is the minimum required rest before a shift change after 3 or more consequitive night shifts?

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71.5 hours

28
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What is hot work?

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Hot work is any work involving production of sparks, flames or which will generate temperatures above 400 degrees Celcius.

29
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When is fire watch required?

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Fire watch is required when hot work is being performed in an area that requires the fire supression, fire detection, or fire mode ventilation systems to be suppresed.

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When is continuous fire watch required?

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  • combustibles within 15m of hot work
  • openings within 15m of hot work that cannot be covered
  • automatic suppresion, detection or fire mode ventiliation surppressed
  • combustible material adjacent to opposite side of wall and may be ignited by conduction or radiation
  • contract people performing hot work
31
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What are siesmic control areas?

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Locations in the plant where safety related seimically qualified structures, systems and components may be located. (ie. RB, SCA, HPECC, etc.)

32
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What are a field operators responsabilities in the switchyard?

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  • Perform visual checks of the 345kV switchyard, transformers, and protection relay panels.
  • Establishing and removing isolations.
33
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What is an operator aid?

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An operator aid is an approved means of providing information determined to be necessart to assist station personnel in performing their duties.

34
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What is a PSCR and what is it used for?

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A PSCR is a plant status change record and is used to document plant states that are in an abnormal configuration.

35
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What is the Line of Defence?

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Line of Defence is designated walls and openings (ie. doors) that seperate the Turbine Hall from other areas of the plant. This is a safety measure should a steam line fail inside the turbine hall.

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What is a field operators responsibilities w.r.t line of defence?

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  • establish a line of defence by visiting each door when required
  • return door lock keys to WCC after use
  • perform daily checks of 7177-TK-1 water level
37
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When must Line of Defence be established?

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Line of Defence must be established whenever secondary side temperatures are to be warmed greater thani 100 degrees Celcius.

38
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What is a station control log used for?

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To document or describe matters of operating concern.

39
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What is the limit of travel of an Outside Operator?

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An outside operator’s allowable range is all buildings outside the protected area but must be able to remain in contact with the MCR by phone or radio.

40
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What are the limits of travel for an inside building operator?

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  • no more than two inside building operators can work or have a break outside the PA at the same time.
  • must have phone/radio contact with MCR
  • If outside the PA, another Operator must cover responsibilities
  • Inside Building operator can only be responsible for two buildings at a time.
41
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What are the limits of travel for the aux boiler operator?

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  • must inform CRO if absent from the boiler room for longer than two minutes while aux boiler is operating.
  • Need replacement operator if absence exceeds five minutes.
42
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What are an oeprators responsibilities when operating station equipment?

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  • perform Operations activities according to approved procedures
  • perform field inspections and operational testing according to approved procedures
  • document deficiencies and non-conformances discovered while performing work.
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What is the process to change a procedure if required?

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  1. Stop work and place in safe state.
  2. Mark up procedure with proposed changes.
  3. Have proposed changes reviewed
  4. Forward to SS for approval
  5. Peform mak-up for current job only (one-time use)
44
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What are come core operations activities?

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  • performing equipment status changes according to approved procedures
  • updating mylars
  • check FLOC tags to ensure correct equipment
  • record all necessary information
  • verify the desired change occured
  • tag components appropriately to indicate status
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What does an operator do if a tag is missing or damaged?

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  1. Inform OFS
  2. Prepare a tag
  3. Hang the tag in the correct location
  4. Have an independant peer check to verify the device is correctly tagged

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