Effective O&M strategies to deliver efficiencies, increase output and reduce outage times to improve ROI
•Preparing for Maintenance: Recognize the importance of predictive and preventative maintenance when planning repairs to ensure maintenance tasks run smoothly
•Understand Costs and Optimize ROI:Discover how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to improve operations and increase your annual income
•Plant Reliability Assessment: Learn about plant equipment to ensure it will continue to perform to meet your expectations in the future
•Safety & Regulatory Update:Ensure adequate safety margins and regulatory compliance and understand why this is critical to your customers, employees and shareholders
•Resources & The Workforce: Understand the demand for personnel across the industry and how this may put a strain on your resources for O &M
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New build, new build, new build… What about the current fleet? With Do For You?
utilities in Europe taking huge strides to secure life extensions for their
operating fleet, it is more important than ever to understand the Practical information and knowledge
options available for refurbishment, modernization and general sharing are at the forefront of our
maintenance. Nuclear Maintenance and Plant
Modernization Conference. We are
With the announcement from EDF to look at 60 year lifetimes for their
current fleet in France, costing approximately €400 to €600 million per
committed to ensuring that you not
unit, maintenance issues are costly but necessary. Operation and only go away with new contacts but
maintenance costs are country-specific but depend heavily on the an up-to-date, relevant wealth of
utility managing the plant. They include manpower costs, annual O&M information so that you can leave
investments, periodic equipment replacement, national and regional
knowing how your business is going
taxes, insurance and company overheads. O&M costs are a major slice
of a utility’s spend and are estimated to be around 25% of a NPPs to move forward…
yearly budget.
With 196 operating nuclear plants across Europe, there are a large 1 Prepare for understanding
projects by
future maintenance
number of owners who will be assessing the prospects of life
extensions and the subsequent maintenance tasks that follow. It is
predictive and preventative
more important than ever to learn from the experts who have maintenance
implemented successful refurbishment strategies for their operating
plants. 2 for maintenancefull extentensure
Understand the
work to
of costs
Maintenance and modernization projects are costly and technically that your plans will recoup an
challenging. If costs and outage times are to be reduced then careful optimal return on investment
planning is required and common sense strategies must be put in place.
In order to do that some of the following challenges will be faced:
3 Assess the reliability equipment will
to understand what
of your plant
• Maintaining operational safety continue to perform to meet your
• Long-term operations strategy
future expectations
• Refurbishment planning
•
•
Makeup, aging and obsolescence
Reliability of equipment performance 4 Hear about theensure you have a
resources and
demand for new
• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Resources and availability
suitable workforce to carry out
future projects
The Nuclear Maintenance and Plant Modernization Conference will
supply your business with the critical intelligence and tools you need to
understand e ective O&M strategies to deliver e ciencies, increase Who will be there?
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in the industry – you’ll be able to take away key lessons and real world utilities/owners who want to discover the
action points that you can implement to save millions of €uro’s. latest technologies and services for planning
and executing nuclear maintenance and
The conference will be bringing together 150 operations and refurbishment projects.
maintenance experts for two days of business critical intelligence,
unrivalled networking and stimulating discussion. With senior level
representatives from European utilities, lead contractors and equipment
Utility/Owner
30%
providers and specialist service companies – can you a ord to miss
out? Lead Contractor
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I look forward to seeing you in Brussels in May. Sub Contractor
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Dean Murphy
Senior Industry Analyst
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3. Look at some of the companies that have been to Nuclear
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AMEC Nuclear Environment Agency Serco
American Electric Power Eskom Shaw Group
American Nuclear Insurers Exelon Siemens
American Nuclear Society Export-Import Bank of USA Societe Generale
AREVA Florida Power & Light Company Southern California Edison
Arizona Public Service Co. Fluor Southern Company
Axpo GE Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO)
Babcock & Wilcox GE Hitachi TVA
BAE SYSTEMS Health & Safety Executive UKAEA
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Iberdrola Ingenieria y Construccion UniStar Nuclear
Bechtel INPO United Nations
BNP Paribas Jacobs Urenco
CENG LLWR URS
CH2M HILL Luminant US Department of Commerce
Clydeunion Magnox North US Department of Energy
Coface Mammoet US Department of State
Curtiss Wright Flow Control Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dominion National Nuclear Laboratory USEC
DSRL National Skills Academy for Nuclear Westinghouse
Duke Energy Nuclear Research Institute WorleyParsons
EDF Ontario Power Generation XCEL
Electric Power Research Institute Progress Energy
Embassy of France PSEG
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation Rolls Royce
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4. Why should you be at the Nuclear Maintenance and
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5. THIS IS YOUR BLUEPRINT TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL DAY 1 - MAY 25th 2011
AND EFFICIENT O&M PROJECTS...
Section 1 – Operational Safety and Regulatory Swedish Case Study: Plant modernization and life time
Issues extension at Ringhals AB
• Understand the complexity of plant modernization and life
time extension to help ensure that your future projects run
European Commission: Legislations for the operating smoothly
nuclear fleet • Hear about lessons learned by Vattenfall regarding
• Understand current regulations and legislations in place to modernization projects in 2009/2010
ensure safety during O&M tasks Lars Eliasson, Vice President Ringhals AB, Vattenfall
• Review the work that the European Commission are doing to
aid the operating nuclear fleet Oskarshamn Case Study: Modernization of Unit 2
• Lessons learned from past O&M projects to ensure optimum • Review the safety and reliability aspects of work taking place
safety for your projects at Oskarshamn 2
Massimo Garriba, Legal Questions & Euratom Coordination, • Take a look at the design and manufacturing work and how
International Relations – Nuclear, European Commission the challenges causing project delays have been overcome
• Moving on to the final step: Looking forward to the
Assuring adequate safety margins after completion of the project in 2013
modification/modernization projects
• Understand the attributes of a strong preliminary and final USA Case Study: Cross-Geographical Learning
safety analysis • Hear about the business case drivers that support
• Learn about technical specifications for modernization refurbishment work in the USA
projects • Learn about OPPD’s Fort Calhoun Station refurbishment work
• Assure sufficient safety margins during upgrade tasks including the replacement of its steam generators,
Hoa Hoang, Power Uprate Product Line Leader, GE Hitachi pressurizer, reactor vessel head and low pressure turbines
Nuclear Energy • Assess the effectiveness of the work – was the refurbishment
a beneficial investment?
UK SAPS justification requirements for support of plant Arun Mani, Partner, Global Energy Consulting Practice, PA
modifications Consulting
• Fully understand the PWR safety margins and safety analysis
requirements for plant modifications Section 3 – Business Case
• Review the UK requirements for modifications and compare
them with international practice Business case for aging management and life extension
• Hear about the necessities of compliance with current and • Should we be investing in modernization now or focus our
new regulations and how this is critical to your customers, efforts elsewhere?
employees and shareholders • Understand all costs associated with operations and
Dr John Lillington, Chief Reactor Technologist/ Manager, Power maintenance and whether refurbishment and modernization
Generation, Serco is a good financial option for your sites
• Understand whether your plant modernization efforts will
Section 2 – Utility Case Studies and provide a sufficient return on investment?
• Take a look at how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades
Cross-Geographical Learning to levelize your spending
John Fownes, Growth Leader, Aging Management,
Swiss Case Study: Strategy for long-term operation of
Westinghouse
the NPP Beznau Unit 1 and 2 (KKB)
• Gain an understanding of the requirements and remits faced
Insurance
by AXPO when evaluating for extended operation at NPP
• Evaluate nuclear insurance risk to aid future maintenance and
Beznau
refurbishment projects
• Hear how AXPO mitigated potential risks when planning their
• Understand third party liability and how this will affect your
forward strategy and how this can be implemented on similar
projects
projects
Mark Tetley, Managing Director, Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd
• Hear how AXPO managed plant staff and materials in order to
Dr Mike Peach, Technical Manager, Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd
ensure successful project execution
• Simple steps you can take to ensure your future operations
are economically viable Networking Drinks Reception:
Herbert Rust, Deputy Site Director, Axpo AG
On the evening of May 25th, Nuclear Energy Insider
Czech Republic Case Study: Long-term refurbishment are hosting the networking drinks reception of the
planning at Dukovany NPP year. Enjoy a relaxed evening of networking with
• Understand the importance of creating a forward plan looking executive decision makers from the entire nuclear
at the history and maintenance records of your nuclear site community. Use this amazing opportunity to build
• Understand the essentials of equipment replacement, material
vital relationships which will help your projects
concerns and ageing management
• Create a blueprint for capital increase before performing
throughout 2011 and the future! This unique evening
modernization tasks will gather everyone you need to talk to, all under one
Jaroslav Jakub, Maintenance Manager, Dukovany NPP, ČEZ roof, for one night only!
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6. ...AND YOUR CHANCE TO MEET THE BEST Day 2 - May 26th 2011
IN THE INDUSTRY
Section 4 – Plant Reliability and Efficiency Retrofitting – dealing with mechanical issues
• Understand the importance of spending your money on
A long-term approach to operations after 40 retrofitting to deal with potential long-term issues
• Understand the evaluation of long-term operations to ensure • Take a look at some relevant case studies of retrofitting
future safe operations projects from around the globe
• Understand the financial impacts of life extensions and future Alstom Power
operations
• Review the work that Electrabel have been implementing to Preventive and predictive maintenance
ensure long-term operations • Understand the importance of the following during
Geert Backaert, Project Manager Long Term Operation, modernization
Electrabel o Repair
o Inspection
Strategies for make up, ageing & obsolescence o Surveillance
• Discuss the different possible strategies for make up for o Workforce
ageing & obsolescence with an in-depth look at: • The importance of predicative maintenance, why we need to
o components storage do this and how to build our strategy towards this
o cloning with FPGA (field-programmable gate array)
o new system Section 5 - Resources
Equipment obsolescence The role of contractors
• Hear how you can find replacement parts during • Understand what resources are needed from contractors for
refurbishment and ensure delays are avoided - Is the supplier specific tasks and how they should be utilized
for that system or component still in business? • Understand whether or not contractors will have the
• How Investing heavily into equipment by utilities will help to resources available to you to ensure work is not delayed or
avoid future difficulties during modernization attempts postponed
• Understand the importance of whether or not your plant Steve McClure, Vice Chairman, Britain’s Energy Coast Business
system is able to operate reliably for future years without Cluster
significant investment
• Understand whether or not it is a better long-term investment Market entry for new companies
to buy a new component or reverse-engineer the ones you • Fully understand the standards and quality levels that are
have - can you obtain the parts? required to gain entry into the nuclear market
• Hear about the health and safety requirements that will be
Implementation of enterprise asset management essential to help position your organization in the industry
• Gain an understanding as to why NEK have decided to opt for • Gain a clear understanding of the skills required for you to
Oracle eAM to support the maintenance process at NPP Krsko become active in the nuclear market
• Hear about the experience that has been gained from the
implementation of the project by NEK The French resources experience
• Understand the developments of the Oracle Nuclear Power • Understand how the International Nuclear Academy are
Generation vertical solution and how it could help your working to bridge the skills gap in France
maintenance projects • Learn about the proactive initiatives being implemented by
• Review the NPGSIG (Nuclear Power Generation Special the French industry to overcome the lack of skills and
Interest Group) initiative that is currently in place resources within the industry
Zeljko Reljic, EBS Implementation Project Manager, NEK Anne-Sophie Defay, Business Development O cer,
Stane Moškon, Partner, OSIR International Nuclear Academy
(Representative of the Burgundy Nuclear Partnership)
Long-term investment planning
• Understand the importance of knowing the plant condition by
looking at the history and maintenance records of the
systems, structures and components
• Learn about the essentials of material concerns, ageing
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Nuclear Maintenance and Plant SAVE
Modernization Conference €400
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May 25-26, 2011. Brussels, Belgium, Novotel Tour Noire Hotel March 18th
E ective O&M strategies to deliver e ciencies,
increase output and reduce outage times to
improve ROI KEYNOTE PRESENTATION FROM:
Preparing for Maintenance: Recognize the
importance of predictive and preventative
maintenance when planning repairs to ensure
maintenance tasks run smoothly & e ciently
European Commission
Understand Costs and Optimize ROI: Discover
UTILITY PERSPECTIVES FROM:
how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to
maximise power output and increase revenues
Plant Reliability Assessment: Learn about the
latest plant equipment developments to help
maximise plant performance
Safety & Regulatory Update: Ensure adequate
safety margins and regulatory compliance and
understand why this is critical to your customers, OTHER EXPERTS FROM:
employees and shareholders
Resources & The Workforce: Understand the
demand for personnel across the industry and how
this may put a strain on your resources for O&M
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