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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Nagra publishes license applications for Swiss geologic repository
Nagra, Switzerland’s national cooperative for the disposal of radioactive waste, has published its general license applications for a deep geologic repository and separate spent fuel encapsulation plant, making the documents publicly available on a digital platform.
Educational Session|Panel|Plant Reliability
Monday, August 8, 2022|3:30–5:00PM EDT|Banyan 2
Session Chair:
Emmett Wilmes (MPR)
Track Organizer:
Knowledge Manager:
Ashley Bridgmon (Southern Co.)
Plants use many processes to manage and maintain equipment reliability. These process are leveraged by site personnel to identify, prioritize, and address equipment health risks. Challenges abound with these processes, including the amount of time required to populate tools, the number of processes used and their lack integration, and the method by which key information from these processes is packaged for site management. This session will have two main areas of discussion. The first will be a discussion on two innovative ways that Southern Nuclear is improving processes to increase equipment reliability - automated system health reports and an integrated vulnerability management tool. The second will be a panel discussion with several utilities to explore other challenges with equipment reliability processes. Topics will include identifying and leveraging internal OE, corporate governance, oversight, support, perform (GOSP) models, system vulnerability assessments, and long term asset management plans.
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