eB For Nuclear Compliance


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The life cycle of a nuclear facility requires strict governance to ensure compliance with regulatory and licensing commitments. The impact of non-compliance can cause an organization to be heavily burdened with costs from penalties, additional regulatory oversight, and customers’ concerns. In extreme cases non-compliance can result in a facility shutdown. eB for Nuclear consists of compliance applications applicable throughout a facilities life cycle. These legal obligations for the operation of a facility are identified in the approved licensing contracts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). eB Licensing is an application that has supported the NuStart consortium for the creation of a Combined Operating License Agreements (COLAs) in addition to be being used to manage licenses, design basis baselines in operational nuclear facilities.

If you have a requirement to manage licensing, regulatory commitments, defense and renewal, nuclear project requirements, federal regulations and all facility requirements in the context of the nuclear life cycle then eB for Nuclear is a must have. Trust eB to manage your regulatory compliance needs by helping to establish and maintain requirements and commitments through automated business process efficiencies.

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 Meet regulatory compliance requirements throughout the nuclear life cycle with eB.

Nuclear Application Suite - Training - Compliance - Design Engineering - Information Management - Performance Management - Knowledge Management Training Compliance Information Management Performance Improvement Knowledge Management Design Engineering

Business Values

The legal operation of a facility is based on the agreed license guided by federal, stated and industry regulations to ensure safe operations of a facility. The inability to comply within the operating license and regulations will have significant cost implications to the company and could have safety implications to workers and the community. Nuclear facilities take great care to ensure they have governance policies in place for compliance. eB for Nuclear consists of a suite of applications that have been developed to comply with regulatory requirements and industry best practice guidelines.

Trustworthy information

The information managed at nuclear facilities share human, material and data resources across the complete enterprise. Within this highly regulated industry information is a important asset to the operation of a plant and it is critical that this information be trustworthy. Knowing that the information assets are trustworthy provides confidence in the information and this holds significant business value.

Visibility to information

eB’s ability to model information and build relationships between objects creates an ecosystem of relevant information that can be viewed in context. Increased visibility to critical information and high levels of data integrity reduces risk, increases safety, improves work efficiency and helps reduce outage times.

Proven solution for COLA

eB is being used by consortiums consisting of Power Utilities and Reactor Designers/Manufacturers who are brought together as virtual enterprises to jointly prepare, review and ultimately submit complete Construction and Operating License Applications (COLAs) for new plant builds to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). This is being supported on a global basis from a remote operations center. eB effectively serves as the collaboration portal while providing the enterprise information management features required to maintain security and accuracy.

Provide oversight for new plant construction

Nuclear Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are using eB to manage large project requirements structures related to power generation and waste treatment facilities which are required to comply with the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs). One key factor in maintaining cost and controlling schedules is to understand the impact that change may have on the bridged information, including compliance and regulatory requirements. eB’s intrinsic ability to produce change effects analyses ensures that the true impact to project timelines, quality requirements and costs are fully visible, allowing decisions to be made with clear understanding of their impact.

Design Basis available to operations and maintenance

Nuclear facility owner/operators are using eB for Nuclear to maintain and protect the Engineering Design Basis of their facilities as well as comply with day-to-day federal and regulatory requirements related to the operations, maintenance, safety/security and environmental impact requirements. The License Basis documents, fully integrated with the Master Equipment List (MEL), form the basis of maintaining the design baseline and providing compliance information throughout the nuclear life cycle.

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Manage compliance and provide auditing throughout life cycle

eB for Nuclear customers see measurable value throughout the facility life cycle due to the fully integrated nature of the eB application suite. With increased oversight, tighter control of processes and visibility of change effects this leads to fewer findings during audits, assessments and inspections.

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Applications

eB for Nuclear provides a powerful integrated framework of applications that is uniquely suited to the management of enterprise information related to the life cycle of nuclear power facilities.

Requirements modeling, classification and relationships

eB’s predefined, ready-to-use information objects provide a rich model for classifying information and establishing relationships between relevant enterprise objects, ensuring the integrity of controlled information by uniquely managing its connectivity to all other relevant information. Requirement management intensive processes, like the preparation and submission of COLAs, or overall Project Oversight for example, can be streamlined through these features.

Project document control

eB creates a rich environment for collaboration, ensuring the integrity and visibility of information using project based controls and security. It effectively, efficiently, and accurately captures, manages, controls, retrieves, distributes, and archives all document format types across the enterprise. Structured and unstructured data can be managed across multiple locations throughout the enterprise and the life cycle of the documents and records.

Action / Commitment tracking

eB's fully configurable built-in workflow capability allows automation of all actions and commitments on any eB information asset. Pre-defined workflow templates ensure consistency and conformance to meeting any licensing or project commitments and helps to improve business process efficiencies.

COLA process management

eB for Nuclear provides a solution for the management and review of the creation and approval of a Combined Operating License Application (COLA) consisting of multiple utility companies, license engineers and architectural engineering firms. To support this effort collaboration on a single system is required to meet the objective of getting approval for a new operating license.

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Technology

Built upon an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), eB uses the latest Microsoft technologies. Developed with the same technologies as SharePoint, eB embraces Microsoft's .NET framework to form the foundation of its application server tier, web services and user interfaces. This architecture allows eB to easily be integrated to other business critical applications.

eB is compatible with Windows 7 and certified for Windows Server 2008. Enterprise Informatics is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

The eB architecture is proven to be enterprise scalable and highly reliable, and offers the flexibility to adapt to the unique business requirements of a diverse customer base. eB is a highly effective solution for building bridges between SharePoint sites across the enterprise (eB for SharePoint) and other information repositories that are required to realize an effective EIM strategy.

eB for Enterprise is certified by the Institute of Configuration Management (ICM) as a four star Configuration Management software platform.

For more information visit the Technology page.

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Resources

Nuclear Knowledge Management White Paper

Solving the Brain Drain of the Nuclear Industry: How to capture and manage your company’s institutional knowledge for immediate action. As the Nuclear renaissance is taking shape, more and more organizations realize that the knowledge and skills being lost due to baby boomer retirements are threatening the bottom line by compromising the safety and efficiency of plant operations. Download

Nuclear Information Life Cycle Solution Brief

eB for Nuclear identifies, connects, and manages information throughout the life cycle of a nuclear facility: permitting and licensing; design and construction, commissioning; ongoing operations and maintenance; all the way through eventual decommissioning. Download

eB for Nuclear Solution Brief

eB for Nuclear offers an integrated suite of applications, including Information Management, Design Engineering, Compliance, Knowledge Management, Performance Improvement and Training, that effectively manages information across the lifecycle of nuclear facilities. Download

AmerenUE: Callaway Nuclear Plant Case Study

A case study of how an organization under strict regulatory requirements manages and controls massive quantities of interdependent information while reducing the cost of compliance, limiting business risk, and optimizing process efficiency. Callaway's use of eB for Nuclear has significantly improved INPO® ratings. Download

Configuration Management White Paper

Configuration management is the logical transition from a conventional document management system to a fully integrated, powerful information management environment. Download

Configuration Management Data Sheet

eB for Enterprise has robust configuration management features that create relationship links between information objects for better visibility and information integrity. Download

Further information is also available by following these links:

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)

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Customers

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AmerenUE (Callaway Plant)

Uses eB to manage their complete Design Basis requirements consisting of the licensing documents and Master Equipment List (MEL).

Energy Solutions

Uses eB to manage all project documentation in context to federal and project requirement structures.

Excel Services Corporation

Uses eB to provide independent project oversight on nuclear projects by means of eB managed compliance matrices.

Nustart Energy

Uses eB to prepare, review collate and issue completed COLA’s to the NRC. Subsequent management of RAI responses are also managed using eB.

For more information about our customers and our nuclear products, visit the Download Center.

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