Realizing the information rich design for the Loviisa nuclear power plant

The Information Rich Design (IRD) concept has since 2005 been widely accepted as the industry standard for Large Screen Displays (LSD) for the Norwegian offshore oil industry. The IRD design has so far only been used for oil and gas process implementations, but the nuclear power plants in Sweden and Finland have recently expressed their interest in developing large screen display prototypes based on the IRD concept. The first prototype has been developed for the development simulator for the Loviisa nuclear power plant in Finland. The development of the Loviisa IRD prototype was performed in 2007 and early 2008. This paper provides a motivation and explanation of some of the main principles behind the IRD concept, and gives a short description of the design process of the Loviisa LSD. A brief description of the Loviisa process is also given. At the end of the paper some specific design examples and symbol explanations are described.