Q6: What else is so darn great about the Roadmap to Operational Readiness, Rev 1?
Robert Fisher
Utility Director | Entrepreneur | Co-founder of Living Better in the Later Years
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It fills a big gap.
The IAEA and WANO provide the industry with rich sources of guidance. IAEA guidance is particularly strong in the development of newcomer nation infrastructure; WANO guidance in plant operation. ?But useful guidance on how to go about building an operating capability in concert with new unit construction was very much lacking. Specifically, the answers to key questions were missing. ?
Any executive on a savvy project leadership team should ask:
1.??? What do we (as an evolving new nuclear operator) need to be ready for? ?What are the important milestones?
2.??? How will we know we are “ready” at each important milestone?
3. When is the earliest we need to be ready for each milestone?
4.??? What metrics should we use to monitor our progress?? What pace of change must we establish to ensure success?
5.??? What help is available to us from the IAEA and WANO?? How are they organized to help us?
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6.??? What is the basis for each of our readiness needs? What can we reference to credibly justify our operational readiness planned actions and associated costs?
7.??? How do we compensate for the organization’s lack of large project skills?? How do we best manage significant, ongoing change?
8.??? How do we nurture the development of a healthy nuclear safety culture along the journey toward plant and personnel readiness for operation?
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The roadmap answers these questions and thus fills an enormous gap that existed between IAEA front-end guidance and WANO backend guidance. ?In addition, it has “stitched together” IAEA and WANO guidance where such connects and/or overlaps. It reconciles this guidance where conflicts existed.
The roadmap provides a bridge that spans the front-end to the backend. That bridge is the “how to” for building a plant operating capability. It also answers “the when,” in part by indicating what criteria should be met at each of several key milestones along the journey toward plant operation. Crossing this bridge should result in an organization’s ability to achieve a level of operational readiness, i.e., the point at which the organization can safely operate the plant. This achievement is important to all stakeholders. Accomplishing the feat in time for plant fuel load and subsequent startup toward operation will also please many critical stakeholders. ?
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Q6: What else is so darn great about the Roadmap to Operational Readiness, Rev 1?