IEC 60964:2009

IEC 60964 ®
Edition 2.0 2009-02
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Nuclear power plants – Control rooms – Design

Centrales nucléaires de puissance – Salles de commande – Conception

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IEC 60964 ®
Edition 2.0 2009-02
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Nuclear power plants – Control rooms – Design

Centrales nucléaires de puissance – Salles de commande – Conception

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
W
CODE PRIX
ICS 27.120.20 ISBN 978-2-88910-353-9
– 2 – 60964 © IEC:2009
CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4

INTRODUCTION.6

1 Scope and object.8

2 Normative references .8

3 Terms and definitions .9

4 Standard use.12

5 Design principles for the main control room .16

5.1 Main objectives of the main control room.16
5.2 Functional design objectives of the main control room.16
5.3 Safety principles.16
5.4 Availability principles.16
5.5 Human factors engineering principles.17
5.6 Utility operating principles .17
5.7 Relationship with other control and management centres .17
5.8 Operational experience .18
6 Functional design of the main control room .18
6.1 General .18
6.2 Functional analysis.18
6.2.1 General .18
6.2.2 Identification of functions.18
6.2.3 Information flow and processing requirements .18
6.3 Assignment of functions .19
6.3.1 General .19
6.3.2 Operator capabilities .19
6.3.3 I&C system processing capabilities.20
6.4 Verification of function assignment .20
6.4.1 General .20
6.4.2 Process .20
6.5 Validation of function assignment .21
6.5.1 General .21
6.5.2 Process .21
6.5.3 General evaluation criteria for validation.21

6.6 Job analysis .21
7 Functional design specification.22
7.1 General .22
7.2 Provision of data base on human capabilities and characteristics .22
7.3 Location, environment and protection .22
7.3.1 Location .22
7.3.2 Environment .22
7.3.3 Protection.23
7.4 Space and configuration.24
7.4.1 Space.24
7.4.2 Configuration.24
7.5 Panel layout .25
7.5.1 Priority.25
7.5.2 Positioning on control desks and panels .25

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7.5.3 Mirror image layout.25

7.6 Location aids.25

7.6.1 Grouping of display information and controls .25

7.6.2 Nomenclature .26

7.6.3 Coding.26

7.6.4 Labelling.27

7.7 Information and control systems .27

7.7.1 General .27

7.7.2 Information functions .28

7.7.3 Control functions .31

7.8 Control-display integration.32
7.9 Communication systems.32
7.9.1 General .32
7.9.2 Verbal communication systems.33
7.9.3 Non-verbal communication systems.34
7.10 Other requirements .34
7.10.1 Power supplies .34
7.10.2 Qualification .34
7.10.3 Maintainability .34
7.10.4 Repairs.35
7.10.5 Testability.35
8 Verification and validation of the integrated control room system.35
8.1 General .35
8.2 Control room system verification .35
8.2.1 General .35
8.2.2 Process .35
8.2.3 General evaluation criteria for integrated system verification .35
8.3 Control room system validation .35
8.3.1 General .35
8.3.2 Process .35
8.3.3 General evaluation criteria for integrated system validation .36
Annex A (informative) Explanation of concepts .37

Figure 1 – Overview of control room system .14
Figure 2 – Overall design process and the relationship to clauses and subclauses of
this standard.
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