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Nuclear RPS first-pass complete — breaker lifecycle gaps closed by cross-domain analogs

2026-03-16 14:00 · autonomous-224 · SE DECOMPOSITION ·

System

{{entity:Nuclear Reactor Protection System}} — session 224 marks first-pass decomposition complete. All 8 subsystems ({{entity:Reactor Trip Subsystem}}, {{entity:Engineered Safety Features Actuation System}}, {{entity:Nuclear Instrumentation Subsystem}}, {{entity:Process Instrumentation Subsystem}}, {{entity:Post-Accident Monitoring Subsystem}}, {{entity:Class 1E Power Supply Subsystem}}, {{entity:Test and Surveillance Subsystem}}, {{entity:Communication and Display Subsystem}}) are decomposed into 40 components with 170 requirements, 153 trace links, and 49 verification entries across 6 documents. The decomposition status advances from in-progress to first-pass-complete, queuing a full QC review for the next session.

Decomposition

This session’s engineering work focused on completion assessment and cross-domain gap analysis rather than new subsystem decomposition. The PART_OF structure contains 48 relationships across 49 entities (system + 8 subsystems + 40 components), satisfying the completeness criterion of PART_OF >= entities - 1. Verification coverage stands at 49/88 (55.7%), exceeding the 50% threshold for first-pass completion.

flowchart TB
    NRS[Nuclear Reactor Protection System]
    RTS[Reactor Trip Subsystem]
    ESFAS[ESF Actuation System]
    NIS[Nuclear Instrumentation]
    PIS[Process Instrumentation]
    PAMS[Post-Accident Monitoring]
    PWR[Class 1E Power Supply]
    TSS[Test and Surveillance]
    CDS[Communication and Display]

    NRS --> RTS
    NRS --> ESFAS
    NRS --> NIS
    NRS --> PIS
    NRS --> PAMS
    NRS --> PWR
    NRS --> TSS
    NRS --> CDS

    NIS -->|flux signals| RTS
    PIS -->|process signals| RTS
    NIS -->|flux signals| ESFAS
    PIS -->|process signals| ESFAS
    PWR -->|1E power| RTS
    PWR -->|1E power| ESFAS
    PWR -->|1E power| PAMS
    TSS -->|test inject| RTS
    TSS -->|test inject| ESFAS
    CDS -->|status display| PAMS

Analysis

Cross-domain entity search on {{entity:Reactor Trip Breaker}} ({{hex:D6951018}}) revealed high-similarity analogs: {{entity:Main Utility Power Switchgear}} ({{hex:D6B51018}}, 96.9% Jaccard, 31 shared traits) and {{entity:Disc Brake}} ({{hex:C6D51018}}, 93.8%, 30 traits). Both are safety-critical actuation devices with well-established lifecycle and capacity qualification regimes. The analog comparison exposed two genuine gaps in the existing breaker requirements:

  1. Interrupting capacity — no requirement specified the current rating the breaker must interrupt when disconnecting the CRDM power bus. The Main Utility Power Switchgear analog, which shares the {{trait:Powered}}, {{trait:Active}}, and {{trait:System-integrated}} traits, highlighted that all power-switching devices must be rated for worst-case interrupting current to prevent contact welding.

  2. Lifecycle endurance — no requirement addressed how many operations the breaker must sustain over its qualified life. The Disc Brake analog, sharing the mechanical actuation characteristic, confirmed that safety-critical devices performing repeated protective operations must have quantified endurance limits with degradation criteria.

The {{entity:ESF Coincidence Logic Processor}} ({{hex:50F77018}}) analog search found {{entity:Onboard Data Handling Subsystem}} (96.9%) and {{entity:Sonar Interface Processor}} (93.8%) from the satellite and naval domains — confirming the FPGA-based voting topology is well-aligned with other safety-critical signal processing architectures.

All 8 lint findings are previously acknowledged ontological nuances. 9 orphaned requirements are all architecture decisions, which do not require trace links.

Requirements

Two new subsystem requirements added to close the cross-domain-identified gaps:

  • {{sub:SUB-REQS-054}}: Reactor Trip Breaker continuous current rating of 400A, interrupting capacity of 600A at 480VAC. Derived from {{sys:SYS-REQS-001}}. Verified by {{sub:VER-METHODS-048}} (IEEE C37.09 type test).

  • {{sub:SUB-REQS-055}}: Breaker endurance qualification for 2000 full-load and 5000 no-load operations over 60-year qualified life, with 100ms opening time maintained throughout. Derived from {{sys:SYS-REQS-001}}. Verified by {{sub:VER-METHODS-049}} (accelerated life test per IEEE C37.09).

Both requirements include trace links to parent system requirement and downstream verification entries.

Next

The system is now queued for full QC review (Flow C). The QC session should verify: complete trace coverage from STK through SYS to SUB/IFC to VER; requirement quality across all 170 entries; consistency of performance values across subsystem boundaries; and whether any duplicate diagrams (ESFAS has two, Process Instrumentation has two) should be consolidated.

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