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Manufacturing Surety
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Background Of the 104 operating commercial nuclear power reactors in the United States, 54 units have been granted license extensions by the NRC. Today the NRC has approximately 20 additional license extension applications for review. Numerous nuclear stations have either applied for or are at some stage of plant modifications related to Extended Power Uprates (EPU). The Nuclear New Build market is maturing as well with 20 new active license applications. New Builds, Plant Life Extensions, EPU’s, and Age are all driving forces for major component procurement and replacement at every station. Many of the components are located within the non safety, balance of plant, or turbine islands which take the process out of the rigorous ASME and 10CFR50 appendix B safety related areas of component design and uprate (i.e. Turbine/Generator, MSRs, Feed water Heaters, etc). Utility Supply Chain quality programs traditionally focus on safety related components and “Approved Supplier List based qualification and maintenance activities, relying on NUPIC processes. Current Industry Situation/Needs
Major component cost and schedule impact risks are significant, and utilities have demonstrated that they will invest in “Surety” personnel to have an intrusive presence and impact at manufacturing locations. TriVis Inc has the solution: TriVis Manufacturing Surety Services TriVis Manufacturing Surety Services TriVis Inc. provides senior, industry experienced personnel to oversee component manufacturing for major projects programs. These highly experienced, seasoned personnel are capable of providing project technical, planning, commercial, testing and acceptance, contract management, and delivery coordination oversight of the complete component design, manufacturing, and shipping process while acting in an owner’s agent role. We have developed an extensive, global, and highly experienced team of professionals to serve our clients needs. We deliver the right level of oversight and intrusiveness from the beginning of the process, ensuring high levels of regular communication and oversight directed at manufacturing control. Our industry experts serve as the owners “eyes and ears” at the supplier locations to protect the owners investment and provide our customers with assurance that the supplier will deliver the products to time, cost, and quality parameters. Our Manufacturing and Supply Chain Surety Program evaluates or establishes testing specifications, defines adequate levels of contract parameters to ensure owner intrusivity, defines engagement periodicity, critical oversight points and processes, all documented in a pre-established reporting format containing extensive photographic content. The service can start with consultation at the start of the component contracting phase when possible, and continue through factory oversight and reporting to final inspection and shipment. TriVis Manufacturing Surety protects the owners’ interests through regular process management by qualified, competent personnel with extensive nuclear plant experience. The end result is the delivery of critical plant components that comply with the technical, quality, schedule, and cost parameters approved in the project plan and defined in the applicable contract.
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Domestic manufacturing capacity for large components has partially moved off shore for many components. Chattanooga is just starting to reopen, Pensacola, Barberton, and many other manufacturing centers from the 70s are either closed or in disrepair. Some nuclear focused domestic capacity expansion is in progress domestically in response to new build demands. While this situation matures in the US; Japan, Spain, France, Korea, Germany, Canada, even the UK have all maintained major component manufacturing and assembly capacities and are now engaged in servicing the US nuclear market. Insufficient programmatic application of vendor oversight, compounded by logistical issues, (on safety related or non safety components) can lead to major project schedule and cost overruns, and is in fact occurring at a significant rate. Oversight and contract management requirements for non safety related components are frequently not as rigorous as the criticality and impact of the component warrant. Permanent utility staff generally are not inclined to locate to manufacturing facilities for long cycle assignments and/or frequent travel.