The Journey of Continuous Improvement in the Reliability and Availability of the OPAL Reactor Jason Chakovski & Andrew Frikken IGORR 18 – Sydney, Australia
OPAL Reactor • 20MW Thermal Multi-Purpose Reactor Facility • 16 LEU FAs • Compact Core (~300kW/L) • D 2 O Reflector • Light Water Cooled and Moderated • 2 x Independent and Diverse Protection and Shutdown Systems • Inherent Passive Safety Systems • >5000 I/O Control and Monitoring System
OPAL Reactor
OPAL Reactor
OPAL Utilisation Neutrons for Science Neutrons for Health Neutrons for Industry
Reactor Based Health Products Product Indication Bulk export Mo-99 Organ imaging of the liver, lung, bone, kidney & heart Gentech /Tc-99m Hyperthyroidism & Thyroid cancer Sodium Iodide I-131 The relief of bone pain in patients with painful osteoblastic skeletal Quadramet Sm-153 metastases The determination of GFR rate Chromium Cr-51 Diagnosis and treatment of Neuroendocrine. Tumors Lutetium-177
Neutrons – For Health 10,000 hospitals in the world use radioisotopes 40 million patients per year 10% 90% Diagnostics (cardiology, oncology, neurology) Therapy / palliative care
OPAL Irradiated LEU Targets ANM ILLW Transfer ANM Mo-99 Facility ANM Mo-99 Facility Synroc Waste Plant
Supply Chain OPAL Reactor Processing Plant Global Local distribution Hospital and Clinical Imaging Health Outcomes (ANM) distribution of finished goods Pharmacy LEU U 235 targets Mo-99 separated Bulk Mo-99 Tc-99m Generators Tc-99m eluted Product Imaging helps irradiated in OPAL and purified Shipped to meet dispensed and and combined administered diagnosis & leads global demand transported with cold kits to patients for to appropriate imaging treatments 7-12 days 1 day 1 day 1 day 5 minutes - - Challenging supply chain
Neutrons for Science
Neutron Beam Instruments at OPAL Platypus (Neutron Reflectometer) Kowari Wombat (Residual Stress (Hi-Intensity / Strain Scanner) Powder Diffractometer) Quokka (SANS) Taipan Echidna (Thermal Triple (Hi-Resolution Axis Spectrometer) Powder Diffractometer) Koala (Single Crystal Laue Diffractomter)
Neutron Beam Instruments at OPAL Kookaburra Sika (Ultra Small Angle Pelican (Cold Triple Neutron Scattering) (Time of Flight Polarised Axis Spectrometer) Spectrometer) Bilby Dingo (SANS) (Neutron Radiography) Emu (Backscattering)
Neutrons – For Industry NTD - Silicon • High and very high voltage markets • Low volume specialty products • High and medium voltage markets • Medium volume specialty products Source: Topsil and Yole Development
Neutrons for Industry Neutron Activation Analysis energy → element identification intensity → concentration
ANSTO Corporate Plan
Investment in Asset ANSTO Asset Management System ANSTO Corporate Plan “Enabling ANSTO to realise best value and outcomes from assets to achieve strategic objectives” Asset Strategic Asset Management Management Policy Plan 17
ASSET MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK ASSET MANAGEMENT Asset Management Policy ANSTO Corporate Plan Strategic planning STRATEGY & PLANNING ASSET MANAGEMENT STRATEGY & PLANNING Demand Asset management planning Asset management strategy & objectives (Strategic Asset Management Plan - SAMP) analysis (AM Plans) ASSET MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING RISK & REVIEW INFORMATION & ORGANISATION & KNOWLEDGE PEOPLE Capital investment Operations decision Maintenance RISK MANAGEMENT, decision making making decision making REVIEW AND ANALYSIS Asset information Organisational strategy and structure, roles & Resourcing strategy Risk assessment and ASSET MANAGEMENT standards responsibilities management Shutdown /outage strategy DECISION MAKING Lifecycle value realisation Asset management Contingency planning & business resilience leadership INFORMATION & ORGANISATION & Data & information management Asset information systems RISK & KNOWLEDGE PEOPLE Capital investment Operations Maintenance Sustainable Organisational REVIEW ENABLERS ENABLERS program strategies development (Supply) plans culture Asset costing Competence and valuation management Asset creation & Asset operations / Maintenance Operate Stakeholder acquisition production delivery engagement Procurement and supply chain Decommissioning & disposal Management of management LIFECYCLE change Acquire DELIVERY Maintain Fault & incident Tech standards Configuration outage mgmt management management Shutdown / engineering engineering & legislation Reliability ACTIVITIES Resource Systems response Asset performance and Management review, Asset management health monitoring system monitoring audit and assurance Dispose MONITORING, REVIEW AND IMPROVEMENT LIFECYCLE DELIVERY ACTIVITIES
Reliability Engineering RCM Approach When is a task “feasible, effective and EVIDENT FAILURE worth doing”? MODE Safety or HIDDEN Operational Loss Repair Only Environmental CONDITION Condition Monitoring Task feasible, effective and worth doing? Condition Monitoring Task feasible, effective and worth doing? MONITORING FIXED TIME Fixed Time Restoration Task feasible, effective and worth doing? Scheduled Restoration Task feasible, effective and worth doing? RESTORATION FIXED TIME Fixed Time Discard Task feasible, effective and worth doing? Scheduled Discard Task feasible, effective and worth doing? DISCARD FAILURE Failure Finding Task feasible, effective and worth doing? Failure Finding Task feasible, effective and worth doing? FINDING Multiple failure affects NO SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE REDESIGN safety or (Redesign may be desirable) environment?
Maintenance Strategy
Operational Excellence • Managing the Strategic Planning Process • Managing and Leading People • Driving Business Improvement • Integrated Business Planning • Managing Demand • Managing Internal and External Supply Chain • Decision Making in Line with Business Objective • Best For Business Decision Making
OPAL Safe Days at Power - Calendar Year 350 305 300 296 290 300 286 282 270 248 250 200 150 128 94 100 39 50 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
OPAL Reliability - Calendar Year 100 98,74 97,98 98 96,92 96,53 96 93,66 94 93,22 92,02 92 90,74 90 88 86 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Reactor Trip per Year 70 63 60 50 40 Trip 1 Trip 2 30 21 18 20 11 9 8 8 8 10 7 6 6 4 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Reactor Trip From Human or Procedural Error 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
OPAL Prioritisation Process
20 Year Schedule
Investment in People
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