The Nuclear Code
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2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Maximizing Safety and Reliability Through Self-Regulation: Lessons Learned in the Nuclear Industry Presented by Pete Milojevic October 2, 2017 2 Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face. 3 4 Hostages of each other. 5 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 0.77 0.90 0.45 0.40 0.25 0.26 U.S. AnnualIndustryAverage 0.21 Significant EventsperPlant 0.17 0.08 0.10 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.07 0.05 0.07 0.04 0.05 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.02 0.10 0.13 0.10 0.07 0.01 100 40 50 60 70 80 90 U.S. Capacity Factor(%) 6 7 8 9 Industrial Safety Accident Rate Number per 200,000 hours worked 1.2 Unplanned Total Scrams 1.04 per 7,000 Hours Critical, per unit 1 2.00 1.80 0.8 1.50 0.58 0.6 1.00 0.4 1.00 0.33 0.26 0.59 0.2 0.17 0.56 0.13 0.51 0.50 0.50 0 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 0.00 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Unit Capability Factor (%) 100 90 86.8 87.3 85.9 86.3 81.5 80 77.2 70 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 10 11 THE NUCLEAR CODE • Self-critical • Want peer performance evaluations • Want areas for improvement • Find, analyze and fix problems • Share operating experience • Use operating experience • Journey to excellence is perpetual 12 13 Photo Attributions • “Free Photo Penny Currency Coin Money Pennies Change” Max Pixel FreeGreatPicture.com (http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Penny-Currency-Coin-Money-Coins-Pennies-Change-426011) • “This Day in Quotes: “Too Cheap to meter” “1957 Union Carbide as about nuclear Power” (http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2009/09/too-cheap-to-meter-nuclear-quote-debate.html) • “What Are We Building Here? Too Cheap To Meter” Stone Design (http://stone.com/wtf/Too_Cheap_To_Meter.html) • Mike Tyson punches James Tillis in the mouth 1986 Word Person (http://www.mikeeiler.com/dont-like-singular-they-tell-mike-tyson/tyson-tillis-2/) • “The Three Mile Island facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania” (https://www.epa.gov/history/three-mile-island) • “Three Mile Island” Lunatic Outpost (http://lunaticoutpost.com/thread-606292.html) (https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0FV7fZ1zVMU/VRacUswUGwI/AAAAAAAAAsM/QdXB6rJrtZc/s1600/Three-mile-Island-Jornal1.jpg) • “And that’s the way it was: March 28, 1979, Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island” (http://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_march_19.php) • “Three Mile Island nuclear plant has a partial meltdown in 1979”“The New York Daily News published this on March 29, 1979. (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)” (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mile-island-partial-nuclear-meltdown-1979-article-1.2154297) • “What’s next for Three Mile Island?” Reading Eagle: Jeremy Drey, The March 28, 1979, Reading Eagle. (http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/whats-next-for-three-mile-island) • “TIME Magazine Cover: Three Mile Island – Apr. 9, 1979” by Dan Miller (http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19790409,00.html) • “Mike Tyson Knockouts-311” The Mars Hotel (http://www.marshotel.com/photos/mike-tyson-knockouts) • “Evander Holyfield took the title away from Douglas just months after he won it, slamming the former heavyweight champ with a right punch in the third and final round of their title fight in Las Vegas” Bettmann/CORBIS (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906998/Mike-Tyson-sore-loser-whining-like-baby-crib-boxer-beat-champ-win-heavyweight-title-25-years-ago-450- pound-boozer-slipped-near-fatal-coma.html) • Chernobyl then and now: 28 haunting images from nuclear disaster “An accident happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station on April 26, 1986.” (RIA Novosti / RIA Novosti (https://www.rt.com/news/155072-chernobyl-images-now-then/) • Chernobyl Disaster (http://funtasticpics.blogspot.com/2010/09/chernobyl-disaster.html) (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_epK1HtfhdQw/TJXkjioPUnI/AAAAAAAAGPk/nNnHyJwv3So/s1600/chernobyl41-789896.jpg) • “A diagram of radiation contamination after the Chernobyl disaster.” HOW STUFF WORKS (http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-reactor5.htm) • Chernobyl Abandoned Homes (http://academlib.com/imag/geograf/tuc_hgeo/image067.jpg) • “Fukushima Nuclear Reactor” (http://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=FHbvk5VG&id=B7D07B9CD1B301BBA3282201B3BC0161085D7C76&q=RTR2KOJR&simid=60800885612 1508865&selectedIndex=0) 14 .