• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.12
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• pp.1637-1639
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• 2014

In the past, the analog protection relays have been widely used for the safety-related systems in the nuclear power plants due to their stability and reliability. Meanwhile, as the high performance digital system has been developed, the digital systems have been adopted in the non-safety systems. However, since the digital systems currently used in the non-safety systems were not developed according to Q-class standard, Commercial Grade Item Dedication (CGID) procedure should be performed in order to apply them to the safety-related system. The purpose of this paper is to describe the CGID procedure including the analysis of the hardware architecture as well as the software embedded in protective relay to apply to the emergency diesel generator in the nuclear power plant. The entire CGID procedure was performed strictly according to the international standard and regulations.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.183-190
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• 2014

A Commercial Grade Item Dedication(CGID) for Korean operating nuclear power plants has been implemented since 2012. The CGID implementation and strategies for Korea are established as follows: CGID policy establishment, R&D of a specific methodologies of CGID, enrollment of third party organizations for CGID work, CGID program establishment for enrolled suppliers, establishment of training courses for certification, and CGID process development for quality class Q and A. Consequently, it is expected that these activities are enable to enhance the reliability and the safety of components and/or parts in nuclear power plants.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.248-255
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• 2014

Nuclear power plants may use commercial grade items if they can pass special tests or inspections, which is called Commercial Grade Item Dedication (CGID). Digital items, however, should follow EPRI TR-106439 to be applied to nuclear power plants. This paper explains the scheme and requirements of the EPRI TR-106439 and introduces some guidelines. Firstly, in order to clarify requirements of the EPRI TR-106439, code interpretation is performed. And through case study of digital indicator, limitations of EPRI TR-106439 are mentioned, and improvement direction is proposed.