EN IEC 62954:2021

Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Requirements for emergency response facilities

EN IEC 62954:2021

Name:EN IEC 62954:2021   Standard name:Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Requirements for emergency response facilities
Standard number:EN IEC 62954:2021   language:English language
Release Date:15-Jul-2021   technical committee:CLC/TC 45AX - Nuclear power plants
Drafting committee:CLC/TC 45AX - Nuclear power plants   ICS number:27.120.20 - Nuclear power plants. Safety

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2021
Jedrske elektrarne - Nadzorne sobe - Zahteve za objekte za odzivanje v izrednih
razmerah (IEC 62954:2019)
Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Requirements for emergency response facilities
(IEC 62954:2019)
Kernkraftwerke - Warten - Anforderungen für Notfall-Reaktionseinrichtungen (IEC
62954:2019)
Centrales nucléaires de puissance - Salles de commande - Exigences pour les moyens
de réaction d'urgence (IEC 62954:2019)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 62954:2021
ICS:
27.120.20 Jedrske elektrarne. Varnost Nuclear power plants. Safety
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 62954

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
July 2021
ICS 27.120.20
English Version
Nuclear power plants - Control rooms - Requirements for
emergency response facilities
(IEC 62954:2019)
Centrales nucléaires de puissance - Salles de commande - Kernkraftwerke - Warten - Anforderungen für Notfall-
Exigences pour les moyens de réaction d'urgence Reaktionseinrichtungen
(IEC 62954:2019) (IEC 62954:2019)
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Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
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Ref. No. EN IEC 62954:2021 E
European foreword
This document (EN IEC 62954:2021) consists of the text of IEC 62954:2019 prepared by IEC/TC 45
"Nuclear instrumentation".
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2022-07-05
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2024-07-05
document have to be withdrawn
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
As stated in the nuclear safety directive 2009/71/EURATOM, Chapter 1, Article 2, item 2, Member
States are not prevented from taking more stringent safety measures in the subject-matter covered by
the Directive, in compliance with Community law.
In a similar manner, this European standard does not prevent Member States from taking more
stringent nuclear safety and/or security measures in the subject-matter covered by this standard.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards
body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN and CENELEC
websites.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62954:2019 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
IEC 60709 NOTE Harmonized as EN IEC 60709
IEC 60964 NOTE Harmonized as EN IEC 60964
IEC 60965 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60965
IEC 61227 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61227
IEC 61772 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61772
IEC 61839 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61839
IEC 62645 NOTE Harmonized as EN IEC 62645

Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1  Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2  Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 61226 2009 Nuclear power plants - Instrumentation and EN 61226 2010
control important to safety - Classification
of instrumentation and control functions
IEC 61513 -  Nuclear power plants - Instrumentation and EN 61513 -
control important to safety - General
requirements for systems
IEC/IEEE 60780--  Nuclear facilities – Electrical equipment EN 60780-323 -
323 important to safety - Qualification

IEC 62954
Edition 1.0 2019-01
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
colour
inside
Nuclear power plants – Control rooms – Requirements for emergency response

facilities
Centrales nucléaires de puissance – Salles de commande – Exigences pour les

moyens de réaction d'urgence
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 27.120.20 ISBN 978-2-8322-6384-6

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 9
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms and definitions . 10
4 Symbols and abbreviated terms . 12
5 ERF basis for design . 12
5.1 General . 12
5.2 Role and main features . 12
5.2.1 General . 12
5.2.2 Emergency Response Centre (ERC) . 13
5.2.3 Technical Support Centre (TSC) . 13
5.2.4 Operational Support Centre (OSC) . 14
5.3 Availability and hazard withstand . 14
5.4 Information to be available in ERF . 15
6 ERF location and physical features . 15
6.1 Location . 15
6.2 Access routes . 16
6.3 Access control . 16
6.4 Environmental design. 16
6.5 Other habitability aspects . 16
6.6 Power supplies . 17
6.7 Documentation . 17
7 Principles of operation . 18
7.1 Organisational aspects . 18
7.2 Staffing . 18
8 Human Machine Interface (HMI) . 18
8.1 Room layout and workspace design . 18
8.2 Hardware and software HMI design . 18
9 Human Factors Engineering (HFE) . 19
9.1 General . 19
9.2 Operational experience . 19
9.3 Functional analysis and assignment . 19
9.4 Task analysis . 19
9.5 Style guide . 20
9.6 HFE verification and validation . 20
10 Instrumentation and control equipment . 20
10.1 Safety classification . 20
10.2 Design of I&C equipment for ERF . 20
10.3 I&C functions of the ERF . 21
10.4 Testability . 21
11 Equipment qualification . 21
12 Communications . 21
12.1 Communication principles . 21
12.2 Nature of communications . 21

IEC 62954:2019 © IEC 2019 – 3 –
12.3 Data communications . 22
12.4 Verbal communications . 22
12.5 Non-verbal communications . 22
12.6 Communication confidentiality . 22
13 Maintenance and training . 23
13.1 Maintainability . 23
13.2 Repairs . 23
13.3 Periodic verification of equipment and perishable goods . 23
13.4 Training and exercises . 23
Annex A (informative) Extracts from IAEA Safety Guides relevant to ERF . 24
Bibliography . 26

Figure 1 – On-site and off-site ERFs and communicating entities . 6

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS – CONTROL ROOMS –
REQUIREMENTS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE FACILITIES

FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
international co-operation on all questions concerning standardiza
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