Today's Date: Thursday, May 17, 2012
AERB
Committees-ACPSR
ADVISORY COMMITTEES

Advisory Committee for Project Safety Review of PHWR based NPPs and PFBR
(ACPSR-PHWR/PFBR)
 
Reconstitution Order No.: CH/AERB/199/2012/290 Dtd.: January 16, 2012
  Dr. S.M. Lee Chairman Former Director, SEG, IGCAR  
  Shri S.K. Chande Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman, AERB E-mail  
  Shri K.K. Vaze Member Associate Dircetor, RD&D Group, BARC  
  Shri Umesh Chandra Member Sr. ED (Safety & KM), NPCIL  
  Shri R.C. Rawal Member Former Principal Project Dirctor, TAPP 3&4  
  Shri V.K. Gupta Member Retd. Head, HPD, BARC  

Expert Member from Academic Institute

  Prof. J.B. Doshi Member Professor, Mechanical Enginnering Department, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
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Representative from Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi

  Dr. S.K. Aggarwal Member Director (IA), Min. of Env. & Forests, Paryavaran Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi  

Representative from Central Electricity Authority (CEA), New Delhi

  Shri A.K. Gupta Member Chief Engineer (TE&TD), CEA, R.K.Puram, Sewa Bhavan, New Delhi  

Representative from Central Boilers Board (CBB), New Delhi

  Shri T.S.G. Narayanan Member Technical Advisor (Boilers) & Secretary, CBB, Deptt. of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi  
  Shri S.K. Jain Alternate Member Development Officer & Asst. Secretary, CBB, Deptt. of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi  

Representative from Site Evaluation Committee (SEC)/PDSC/CSEC

  Chairman of Site Evaluation Committee (SEC)/PDSC/CSEC Member (depending on the stage of project under review)  

Representatives from Organisation Responsible for the Project Under Review (for PHWR based NPPs)

  Director (Technical) Member NPCIL  
  Project Director or Chief Project Engineer/Station Director Member (depending on the stage of project under review)  

Representatives from Organisation Responsible for the Project Under Review (for PFBR)

  Director, Reactor Engineering Group Member IGCAR  
  Director (Technical), BHAVINI/Station Director, PFBR Member (depending on the stage of project representing project)  

Representatives from AERB

  Director, OPSD Member AERB E-mail  
  Director, NPSD Member-Secretary AERB E-mail  

Permanent Invitees

  Shri Animesh Biswas   NPSD, AERB  
  Shri V.R. Dhotre   NPSD, AERB  
TERMS OF REFERENCE

1. For Safety Clearance of Project Sites:

  • Conduct review from Safety view-point of reports from Site Evaluation Committees (SECs) and associated Safety Related Documents submitted by the Organisation Responsible for the Project under review, regarding acceptability of the proposed site for locating the NPP, considering plant and public safety and give its recommendations to AERB for Site Clearance with associated observations/ suggestions/stipulations, if any.

  • Identify site related specific administrative and design measures and tests/checks if any, that are necessary and to be taken into consideration in recommending acceptability of the proposed site of NPP from Safety viewpoint.

2. For Authorisations at Major Project Stages:

  • Conduct review from safety point of view of reports and recommendations from Project Design Safety Committees (PDSCs)/Civil Engineering Safety Committee (CESC) and associated safety documents submitted by the Organisation Responsible for the project and give its recommendations to AERB for Authorisation with observations/suggestions/stipulations, if any for Nuclear Power Plants/ Research Reactors for major Project Stages such as Construction, Commissioning, Operation & Decommissioning and as required for their intermediate stages.

  • Reviews may take into consideration, as appropriate to the project stage, the adequacy of status of management set up, completion of construction and commissioning of different systems, training and qualification of staff, quality assurance programme, emergency preparedness in addition to consideration for adequacy of design provision for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Safety.

  • Review any other relevant safety issues referred to the committee by Chairman, AERB.

Note: Authorisation for the stages of First Approach to Criticality (FAC) and Raising of power to 100% FP will be through a joint review by SARCOP and ACPSR. For other stages of Authorisation after first criticality, copies of the proposals will be put up to SARCOP for information.

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