Outage planning: basics are the key to success

Conference · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1985 · Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5740565

Helfand, N B

Northeast Utilities Service Company (NUSCO) services approx.1,126,000 customers in Connecticut and western Massachusetts. The company's operating nuclear facilities include Connecticut Yankee, Millstone Unit 1, and Millstone Unit 2. Although NUSCO's earliest commercial operation of a nuclear plant dates back to January 1968, the cost and scheduling section was not created until 1979. The section was created as a corporate service organization composed of four major units: cost engineering, estimating, backfit/betterment planning, and outage planning. To date, 12 of the 28 nuclear refueling outages have been planned and scheduled by the department. There is now a wealth of outage information available from both company personnel and a historical computer database. Current directions within cost and scheduling have been back to basics. The backfit/betterment planning unit has been working with the in-house engineering and design groups to define their work scopes better, to develop a generic work breakdown structure, and to provide better resource planning. The estimating and cost engineering units are working to utilize this to provide true cost and schedule integration. Outage planning will wait for these developments on projects before discussing possible applications in the field.

• Research Organization: Northeast Utilities Service Company, Hartford, CT
• OSTI ID: 5740565
• Report Number(s): CONF-851115-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 50
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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