Successfully completing the periodic reviews of your installation
Enhance the performance (cost, quality, lead times) of your periodic review projects and guarantee the continued use of your installations.
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The periodic review process is a mandatory regulatory process focused on:
- The assessment of the conformity of the installations and the effects of the ageing of the equipment,
- The review of the level of management of the risks posed by the installations,
- Taking into account changes to the regulatory standards.
The purpose of the periodic reviews is to:
- Improve the safety level of the installations,
- Obtain authorisation for the installation to continue its activities by mobilising the requisite resources and expertise.
The methodology adopted by Orano for these reviews is intended to optimise the process:
- Pool and analyse the Operating Experience Feedback,
- Standardise the documents produced and the input data required to develop a methodological reference framework,
- Intervene in operations with specialist teams and Review officers : a core set of skills,
- Adopt strategies and approaches that are proportionate to the challenges and tailored to the constraints of the basic nuclear installations (INB): development of a programme that is “tailored to the need” and appropriate scoping of the files.
- Uniformity of the review files
- Consistent approaches
- Improved costs, quality and lead times
- Technical and methodological support
- Expertise and management of the process throughout the reviews
- Robustness of the demonstrations presented to the Safety Authorities
- 18 INB (basic nuclear installations) subject to mandatory periodic reviews within the Orano Group: conversion plant, recycling plant, decommissioning units, treatment stations, laboratories, warehouses.
- 12 INB concerned by the process of industrialisation of the reviews (over the last 4 years up to 2021)
- Participation of teams from Orano in operating experience information sharing groups at national (CEA, EDF, Andra) and international (IAEA, OECD / NEA) level
- Technical and methodological support
- Proposed demonstrations that are proportionate to the challenges at the relevant INB
- Pooling of operating experience feedback acquired from all of Orano Group’s installations and from the information sharing groups
- Improved costs, quality and lead times associated with the design studies
