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INPO representative will present an INPO perspective on the overall state of engineering and configuration management across the nuclear industry. Describe INPO's CM-related activities and current focus areas.
This presentation is an update on the North American Young Generation in Nuclear. Aleisha McAteer will be presenting a brief history on NAYGN, an update on mentorship within the program, and will present on the NucLEADers program.
A presentation on benchmarking knowledge transfer across the industry. This topic will cover why knowledge transfer is important, what's special about it, and how it occurs at different stages of a commercial nuclear program.
This session will focus on areas in the industry that conference attendees are looking to address. Questions will be obtained during the registration process and during the conference to facilitate this session. This will be an interactive session that will discuss the issue and identify utilities that have addressed the issue and how they addressed it or others that are seeing the same issue. The goal of this session is to allow attendees to bring up areas in which the utility is struggling and gain OE from the industry in real time.
This presentation will update the CMBG group on the enhancement of KEPCO E&C's CMIS product and how it is being utilized at Shin-Kori. Topics include the current status of CMIS at Shin-Kori, what is needed to further advance the CMIS application, how it is utilized in the design phase, and how verification is performed within the tool.
This session is based on a 90 minute PowerPoint presentation that walks the audience through the fundamental concepts, terms, and examples of Configuration Management (CM), including design and operating margin management. The objective of this session is to engage new conference attendees in the CM process as presented at the conference and provide them with a capsule summary of the process. CM 101 should provide an understanding of how the different plant organizations contribute to and support configuration control of design, processes, and equipment. There will be a discussion of the industry three-ball process model for CM equilibrium, examples of how the equilibrium can be upset and recommended processes for restoring the equilibrium.
This session covers the topic of IER 21-4 with particular focus on parts 4c and 7a. INPO has identified more than 600 of what they term "Noteworthy - Consequential" events related to faulty parts, that between 2018 and 2020 led to a loss of generation equivalent to shutting down the entire nuclear industry for 16 days. These are mostly commercial quality parts that have escaped the additional scrutiny of parts procured safety-related. The industry has responded with parts quality programs and initiatives that provide for additional testing on parts with the goal of minimizing parts related lost generation incidents.
This session covers digital equivalencies and how configuration management is managed for those mods.
This session focused on how utilities are handling challenges in relation to equipment reliability, obsolesence, and licensing renewals at their plants. In this session utilities benchmark how each group handles these items and to discuss the types of challenges they have been experiencing.
This session focused on best practices and lessons learned while trying to work down backlogs and PIs.
This session discussed what type of technologies are being used to help support and improve CM. This topic also discusses some of the technologies that were used during COVID and what it's impact was to the plants.
This presentation focused on the impacts of COVID on the nuclear industry and in particular on CM. The panel covered the perspectives of international companies and utilities, the utility impacts, and the supplier impacts. Both positive as well as negative impacts were shared during this discussion.
This presentation covered the history and background of the CM standard, the approach taken for the 2021 revision, an overview of the revision process, the voting process and results, comment reviews and resolution, ANSI processes and publication, and also an overview of changes for the 2021 revision.
This presentation provided an industry perspective on the Owner's Acceptance process. First, the presentation covered the utility perspective from Southern Nuclear. Additionally, it provides an EOC perspective from Sargent & Lundy.
This presentation was a DOWG update on Revision 3 to the Standard Design Process. The majority of this presentation discussed the summary of changes related to this revision. Future revision items that are being considered were also discussed.
This session focused on the sharing and replicating process within the Standard Design Process to see how utilities are sharing today and what challenges they face in sharing their mods with others.
This session focused on stakeholder engagement in the CM process as well as the capitalization process.
This session benchmarked the revision process for FCI for those utilities that attended the session.
This session discussed the Standard Design Process and DOWG areas of focus that are currently being worked on and what upcoming actions the DOWG will be focusing on.
This session discussed the challenges with 3D modeling and the need for a standard IFC schema that can be used to help make tools agnostic in relation to 3D model data.
This session focused on benchmarking the owner's acceptance process for those utilities that attended this session.
GrayMatter presented on the configuration management process and challenges related to the manufacturing industry.
This presentation provided an update on the progress of construction on the Vogtle 3 & 4 new nuclear units.
This presentation provided a detailed look at how Energy Northwest is partnering with other government agencies and companies to build and test various new nuclear technologies in the US to diversify the nuclear energy portfolio.
This presentation provided a sneak peak of Westinghouse's eVinci™ Micro Reactor design that will be used to provide 5MWe of power anywhere through a factory-built product that can provide years of nuclear power.
This presentation provided a look into the 50.59 and 72.48 process used at various plants and how these processes could be largely standardized to increase efficiencies and standardize nomenclature for the industry.