Fit for Purpose Safety Cases in the Nuclear Industry

Hyatt Regency Birmingham, Birmingham

04 June 2019

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Overview

"Fit For Purpose Safety Cases is an invaluable seminar for those working in Nuclear safety cases. The breadth of topics makes for an interesting day and fuels reflection."
URENCO UK

Building a robust and compliant safety case is essential to the safe management of nuclear projects and the engineers who work on them. Learning from key thought leaders across the nuclear industry can ensure your safety cases meet regulatory standards whilst also meeting budgetary constraints.

Combining best practice and the lessons learned from recent projects direct from nuclear operators, together with guidance from the industry regulator, this seminar provides a unique opportunity for nuclear safety professionals to address and overcome the key challenges for safety case design and implementation.

Confirmed speakers for 2019 include: NNB GenCo, EDF Energy, Sellafield Ltd, Urenco UK, UKAEA, LLWR, Rolls-Royce, National Nuclear Laboratory and Office for Nuclear Regulation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

All those involved with the following areas will benefit from this seminar:	Meet, network with and hear from your peers operating in the following areas:
Regulatory compliance Technical Standards review Health and Safety Risk assessment and management Safety Case development and management Inspections Human Factors	Power generation Defence Decommissioning New build Fuel storage and transport Waste management

ATTEND THIS EVENT TO:

Gain insights from nuclear thought leaders across new build projects, operational plants and decommissioning sites
Put industry leaders in the hot-seat to answer your safety case questions
Learn about recent developments in processes and procedures across the industry
Hear case studies from UK operators regarding successes and areas for improvement
Network with budget holders and thought leaders across the nuclear industry, including operators and nuclear licensees

PAST DELEGATES INCLUDE:

AMEC Foster Wheeler Atkins Global Capenhurst Nuclear Services Cavendish Nuclear Limited Horizon Nuclear Power LLWR Magnox Electric Plc Office for Nuclear Regulation Resilience Rolls Royce Submarines Sellafield Ltd URENCO UK Limited	Babcock International Group Poyry Energy Ltd Costain Goodliffe Technical Services British Nuclear Group International Nuclear Services Ltd Rolls Royce Naval Marine National Nuclear Laboratory The University of York EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Ministry of Defence

FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS USER GROUPS

"A professionally organised day, consisting of well presented topics by credible experts, resulting in increased understanding of the variety of issues which engineering professionals face within the nuclear industry today and tomorrow."
Engineering Surveyor, Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd.

"A well organised event with opportunity to meet and discuss nuclear safety case issues and direction with peers in the industry."
Director, Abbott Risk Consulting Limited

"An interesting course with some thought provoking ideas. Safety is without question the most important thing however it must be proportionate and this event helped provide views on how to achieve this."
Specialist : Fluid Systems, Rolls-Royce

"Fit For Purpose Safety Cases is an invaluable seminar for those working in Nuclear safety cases. The breadth of topics makes for an interesting day and fuels reflection."
Safety Case Manager, URENCO UK

"Informative event with a breadth of speakers from different areas of the industry."
Engineer, Atkins

"Relevant and insightful and provided a number of points for practical application in my day to day job."
Senior Safety Consultant, Amec Foster Wheeler

"Entirely appropriate for the nuclear industry and the conference is an excellent way of sharing OEF."
Company Safety Manager, National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)

ACCOMMODATION

We have an allocation of rooms for the night of the 3 June as follows:

Copthorne Hotel Birmingham
Paradise Circus
B3 3HJ

£95.00 Single Occupancy
£105 Double Occupancy

To get this rate call 0121 200 2727 quoting reference INST030619

Rooms at the Jury's Inn will be released 28 days prior to event:

Jury’s Inn
245 Broad Street
Birmingham
B1 2HQ

Tel. 0870 4100 800 quoting INSTIT030619

Rates:
£89 BB per single occupancy room per night
£100 BB per double occupancy room per night
The rates are inclusive of VAT

Day 1

08:30 - Agenda

	TUESDAY 4^th JUNE 2019
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00	OPENING REMARKS FROM THE INSTITUTION AND INTRODUCTION OF THE CHAIR Mark Shannon, Chair, Nuclear Power Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Head of Project Management Office and UKAEA Strategic Plan Development, UK Atomic Energy Authority
09.05	CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS Gavin Edwards, Head of Design Authority, NNB GenCo
09:15	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FIT FOR PURPOSE SAFETY CASES - A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE Barry Lyon, Nuclear Safety Inspector, Mechanical Engineering Specialist, Office for Nuclear Regulation · Regulatory views and expectations – understanding the regulator and the wider user · ONR guidance – where to find it, what it comprises of, how to use and interpret it · Practical applications and pitfalls
	ENSURING USABILITY OF SAFETY CASES
09:40	INTEGRATION OF SAFETY AND SECURITY: FOR OUR SINS Jeremy Edwards, Technical Manager, Nuclear Security, CBRN and Resilience, National Nuclear Laboratory Simon Marsh, Safety and Security, National Nuclear Laboratory · The introduction of Security Assessment Principles (SyAPs) and the parallels to nuclear safety · The collaborative approach using security and safety sepecialists to co-author Nuclear Site Security Plans · Highlight some of the similarities, and differences (and therefore challenges) between safety and security, but the value of a joint approach and benefit of new capability development from both a technical and a personal development perspective
10:05	DOUNREAY SITE RESTORATION LTD PRESENTATION John Keeton, Technical & Governance Department Manager, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd.
10.40	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:10	CHALLENGING THE NORM IN APPROACHES TO SAFETY CASES Tony Rice, Chief of Safety Engineering, Rolls-Royce Examples fit for purpose engineering solutions and safety cases Addressing challenges around gaining approval
11:35	ON PLANT RISK AWARENESS AND ENDURANCE OF CONTROLS Gemma Mitchell, Site Safety Case Manager, Urenco UK · Managing the complex interaction between chemotoxic risks and radiological risks · How we ultimately make the on plant information meaningful for the operators
	SAFETY CASES FOR DECOMMISSIONING
12:00	SAFETY CASES FOR NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING Ian Wills, Head of Nuclear Safety Cases, LLWR · Making a strategic safety case that is focused on reducing risk ALARP · Balancing risk types, quantification and non-quantification of risk · Understanding uncertainty
12:25	INTRODUCTION TO BEIS SAFETY AND SECURITY RESEARCH COLLABORATION PROJECT
12:35	NETWORKING LUNCH: POSTER PRESENTATIONS FROM BEIS SAFETY AND SECURITY RESEARCH COLLABORATION PROJECT
13:35	IAEA’S NEW ECLIPSE PROJECT: ENHANCING CONFIDENCE OVER THE LIFETIME OF PRE-DISPOSAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT Jeremy Hunt, Head of Project Delivery, Site Management, Sellafield · A review of previous international projects on the topic of Pre-Disposal Waste Management safety case development · A discussion of the key objectives of the new ECLiPSE project and how the UK can contribute · How can the UK nuclear sector, including Licensees, Regulators and supply-chain partner’s support simpler and more effective safety cases? Extended Presentation: Update on Sellafield Activities
	SAFETY CASES FOR EXISTING AND OPERATIONAL PLANTS
14:05	FIT FOR PURPOSE GRAPHITE SAFETY CASES Jim Reed, Chief Graphite Engineer, EDF Energy · The challenges associated with Graphite Safety Cases · Recent reflections and learning · Fit for purpose Graphite Safety Case – fleet strategy and delivery
14:30	USING STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS IN NUCLEAR SAFETY CASES Peter Reed, Senior Structural Integrity Engineer, Rolls-Royce · Defining the hierarchy of techniques used in structural reliability analysis. · Example of using structural reliability analysis to quantify margins to failure. · Overview of the wider UK nuclear sector collaboration on the use of probabilistic structural integrity methods
14:55	ROBOTICS IN RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE Adrian Van Arkel, Mechanical Design Engineer, UKAEA · Overview of the ESS facility and the Active Cells · Overview of the RHS and its operation · Discussion around adding onerous safety to already complex robotic systems is not easy, and we’ve found a way to avoid it · Discussion around the principal of the safety case; maintain and protect the active cells boundary. Crane collapse is acceptable in certain events · Discuss the example of the CTH, where we isolate the cranes in certain scenarios to protect it
15:20	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	Saftey-LED New FACILITIES
15:50	NEW BUILD: SAFETY LED DESIGN Gavin Edwards, Head of Design Authority, NNB GenCo
16:15	QUESTION TIME A unique and interactive opportunity to launch quick fire questions to industry leaders influencing nuclear safety cases. This session will be under Chatham House Rules providing you with the opportunity to ask the hard hitting questions.
16:55	CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:00	END OF SEMINAR

Jim Reed: Chief Graphite Engineer, EDF Energy

Jim Reed is the Chief Graphite Engineer within the EDF Energy Central Technical Organisation. In this role he acts the ‘Architect Engineer’ sitting between the technical analysis teams and the safety case authoring team; he also provides the link between requirements for inspection agreed with the stations and as well as the plant modifications to extend the safe operating envelope of the graphite core. Jim has spent all his career in nuclear energy starting in Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories in 1981. Jim is a Chartered Physicist and completed his PhD in Neutron Scattering through liquids.

Mark Shannon: Head of Project Management Office and UKAEA Strategic Plan Development, UK Atomic Energy Authority

Mark Shannon is currently Head of Major Projects at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Chair of the IMechE Nuclear Power Committee. He has worked in fusion research for 13 years starting in Heating systems development and maintenance for both the JET and ITER machines, including a short period managing the early days of the MAST-Upgrade project. Since then he has worked in systems engineering and design integration for the DEMO project before creating a project management office at UKAEA. Prior to working in Fusion, Mark worked for 13 years as a mechanical engineer in chemical plant design and construction for Monsanto, Foster Wheeler and Shell.

Barry Lyon: Nuclear Safety Inspector, Office for Nuclear Regulation

Barry Lyon is a chartered mechanical engineer / Fellow of the IMechE, working in mechanical engineering for 34 years. Following a mechanical technician apprenticeship in the power distribution industry, Barry has worked on the design and manufacture of systems for – low/medium voltage electrical switchgear, military aircraft, marine propulsion, pharmaceutical machinery (where he was awarded a patent for spray gun nozzles), oil and gas industry in composites. My nuclear experience included the design and build of uranium enrichment plants in Germany, UK and Holland. Barry’s current position is as a nuclear safety inspector at the Office for Nuclear Regulation where he has focussed on the regulation of decommissioning and storage of the UK’s legacy waste.

Ian Wills: Head of Nuclear Safety Cases, LLWR

Ian is a Chartered Engineer, having worked in the nuclear industry for nearly 40 years in roles at both Sellafield and the LLW Repository. After holding various Design Engineering roles, Ian moved to Radiological Safety Assessment in the late 1990’s. As a Team Leader responsible for delivering numerous multi-discipline decommissioning safety cases, Ian has worked on some of the most challenging alpha and beta gamma decommissioning projects in the UK. Ian is Capability Lead and Safety Case Process Owner at LLWR, and is an active member of the Safety Directors’ Safety Case Forum. He is leading production of nuclear industry guides in the areas of Leadership and Management for Safety, Decommissioning Safety Cases, and Contaminated Wounds.

Tony Rice: Chief of Safety Engineering, Rolls-Royce

Tony Rice has 21 years of experience working for Rolls-Royce within the Submarines Enterprise. He has produced safety cases covering the full nuclear life cycle, from Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) design, core manufacture, core load, commissioning, through life operation, refuel and post commission. Tony led the Dreadnought Class nuclear safety case from inception through to final design and Pre-Construction Safety Report. He is currently the Chief of Safety Engineering Department Manager, responsible for the technical delivery of safety cases to the MoD to support the Submarine programme, both current class and new designs.

Jeremy Hunt: Head of Project Delivery, Site Management, Sellafield

Jeremy has worked in the nuclear industry for 22 years in the fields of Operations, Decommissioning and Waste Management. Areas of topical expertise include project management; decommissioning & demolition of fuel fabrication, reprocessing and waste storage facilities; and waste management. He is currently responsible for the delivery of a large portfolio of projects associated with plant enhancement and hazard reduction across the operational nuclear facilities at Sellafield. Jeremy is the UK representative for a new project being developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency to enhance confidence in the safety of Pre-Disposal Waste Management through harmonisation of standards and guidance on safety case development.

Jeremy Edwards: Technical Manager, Nuclear Security, CBRN and Resilience,, National Nuclear Laboratory

Simon Marsh: Safety and Security, National Nuclear Laboratory

Simon has worked in the Nuclear Industry for 18 years producing safety assessments in the defence and civil nuclear industries. More recently he has moved into NNL’s Security and Safeguards team, supporting the production of the Security Assessment Principles (SyAPs) aligned Nuclear Site Security Plans for NNL’s facilities. His involvement comprised the production of Vital Area Identification studies and Vulnerability Assessments for a high hazard category operational laboratory as well as for the concept phase of a proposed analytical facility. He jointly authored two Nuclear Site Security Plans, and continues to support the implementation phase of this work. He is also a member of the SyAPs Cross-Industry Forum.

John Keeton: Process Owner, Safety Cases, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd.

Gavin Edwards: Head of Design Authority, NNB GenCo

Gemma Mitchell: Site Safety Case Manager, Urenco UK

Peter Reed: Senior Structural Integrity Engineer, Rolls-Royce

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