The 2014 Utilities Service Alliance Business Plan Performance Summary was recently published and shared with USA leadership.
According to the Executive Summary, this year, USA fleet members were more engaged and more involved as the year progressed, participating in 170 Jump-Up Calls (predominantly in Engineering and Operations functional areas) and 168 Assessments (not including MRM support, mid-cycle assessment support or safety culture assessments).
Net economic benefit to the fleet in 2014 was the best ever, totaling $38.5M, compared to $27.3M in 2013. Savings and avoided costs from fleet programs and projects (ie., Cyber-security, Fukushima response, loaned employees, etc.) amounted to $17M in 2014 compared to $13.5M in 2013. Benefit from fleet contract usage in 2014 was $22.3M compared to $13.7M in 2013.
USA’s 2014 fleet Return On Investment (ROI) was 24.67 compared to 19.74 in 2013. This is the highest fleet ROI achieved to date within the Alliance and is attributable to both the value of the opportunities available and the increased level of engagement/use at the stations.
Additional 2014 Performance Improvement highlights include:
- Operations: USA tracked improvement in Reactivity Management Index at nine stations
- Maintenance: Overall Red/Yellow metrics have been reduced, improvement in FIN team effectiveness metrics overall
- Outage: No Loss of Decay Heat Removal Events in 2014; Improvement in pre-outage scope variance (10 of 14 stations met goal)
- Chemistry: First time ever INPO Fleet CEI ranking of White (ranked 4 of 10 Fleets)\
- Engineering: Engineering Red/Yellow Programs are improving and White; five other Equipment Reliability Indices are Green and improving
- Fukushima: Surveillances completed at all 11 USA Plants
- Security: 100 Percent Security Force-On-Force success in 2014; with USA support, Fermi 2 completed NRC 95001 Inspection returning to Column 1
- Emergency Preparedness: NRC DEP Indicator >97%; EP Equipment important to Emergency Response (EITER) KPI >95%
- Training: 100% success rate on accreditation renewals (5 for 5); No Training Team Identified Findings (TIF’s) on any ATVs; All Station Identified Findings (SIFs) closed with concurrence by INPO team
- Performance Improvement: 13 of 18 Key Performance Indicators show an overall improving trend or are Green
- Safety: Injury rate improved from 3.6% to 2.8%
- Obsolescence: 184 Engineering Evaluations initiated, 2,982 components resolved and $471,165 in savings to the Alliance posted
- Supply Chain Management: Multiple Class B or greater agreements completed for 2014 including AREVA (SAFER), AREVA (TransNuclear), Crane Nuclear, RPS, G4S, Curtiss-Wright and Energy Solutions