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May 25-26, 2011. Brussels, Belgium

Nuclear Maintenance and Plant

Modernization Conference

UTILITY PERSPECTIVES FROM:

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION FROM:

European Commission

OTHER EXPERTS FROM:

Preparing for Maintenance: Recognize the

importance of predictive and preventative

maintenance when planning repairs to ensure

maintenance tasks run smoothly

Understand Costs and Optimize ROI: Discover

how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to

improve operations and increase your annual

income

Plant Reliability Assessment: Learn about plant

equipment to ensure it will continue to perform to

meet your expectations in the future

Safety & Regulatory Update: Ensure adequate

safety margins and regulatory compliance and

understand why this is critical to your customers,

employees and shareholders

Resources & The Workforce: Understand the

demand for personnel across the industry and how

this may put a strain on your resources for O&M

For the latest speaker line up and agenda updates please visit:

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"Comprehensive and informative – good insight

into lessons learnt.” Mark Peres, Executive Project Director, Fluor

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Dear Colleague,

New build, new build, new build… What about the current fleet? With

utilities in Europe taking huge strides to secure life extensions for theiroperating fleet, it is more important than ever to understand the

options available for refurbishment, modernization and generalmaintenance.

With the announcement from EDF to look at 60 year lifetimes for their

current fleet in France, costing approximately €400 to €600 million perunit, maintenance issues are costly but necessary. Operation and

maintenance costs are country-specific but depend heavily on the

utility managing the plant. They include manpower costs, annual O&M

investments, periodic equipment replacement, national and regional

taxes, insurance and company overheads. O&M costs are a major slice

of a utility’s spend and are estimated to be around 25% of a NPPs yearly budget.

With 196 operating nuclear plants across Europe, there are a large

number of owners who will be assessing the prospects of life

extensions and the subsequent maintenance tasks that follow. It ismore important than ever to learn from the experts who have

implemented successful refurbishment strategies for their operating

plants.

Maintenance and modernization projects are costly and technicallychallenging. If costs and outage times are to be reduced then carefulplanning is required and common sense strategies must be put in place.

In order to do that some of the following challenges will be faced:

• Maintaining operational safety

• Long-term operations strategy

• Refurbishment planning• Makeup, aging and obsolescence

• Reliability of equipment performance

• Preventive and predictive maintenance

• Resources and availability

The Nuclear Maintenance and Plant Modernization Conference will

supply your business with the critical intelligence and tools you need to

understand eective O&M strategies to deliver eciencies, increase

output and reduce outage times to improve ROI. Delivered by the best

in the industry – you’ll be able to take away key lessons and real world

action points that you can implement to save millions of €uro’s.

The conference will be bringing together 150 operations and

maintenance experts for two days of business critical intelligence,unrivalled networking and stimulating discussion. With senior level

representatives from European utilities, lead contractors and equipment

providers and specialist service companies – can you aord to missout?

I look forward to seeing you in Brussels in May.

Kindest regards,

Dean MurphySenior Industry Analyst

Nuclear Energy Insider

Tel: +44 (0) 207 375 7204

Email: [email protected]

Practical information and knowledge

sharing are at the forefront of ourNuclear Maintenance and Plant

Modernization Conference. We are

committed to ensuring that you not

only go away with new contacts butan up-to-date, relevant wealth ofinformation so that you can leaveknowing how your business is goingto move forward…

Prepare for future maintenance

projects by understandingpredictive and preventativemaintenance

Understand the full extent of costsfor maintenance work to ensurethat your plans will recoup anoptimal return on investment

Assess the reliability of your plant

to understand what equipment willcontinue to perform to meet your

future expectations

Hear about the demand for newresources and ensure you have asuitable workforce to carry outfuture projects

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Who will be there?Senior level decision makers fromutilities/owners who want to discover thelatest technologies and services for planningand executing nuclear maintenance andrefurbishment projects.

Utility/Owner

Lead Contractor

Sub Contractor

Specialist Services

Public Sector

Consultant

Other 7%

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TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA SO FAR…


Section 1 – Operational Safety and Regulatory

Issues

European Commission: Legislations for the Operating

Nuclear Fleet

• Understand current regulations and legislations in place to ensuresafety during O&M tasks

• Review the work that the European Commission are doing to aid theoperating nuclear fleet

• Lessons learned from past O&M projects to ensure optimum safetyfor your projects

Massimo Garriba, Legal questions & Euratom coordination, international

relations – nuclear, European Commission

Assuring adequate safety margins after

modification/modernization projects• Understand the attributes of a strong preliminary and final safety

analysis

• Learn about technical specifications for modernization projects• Assure sufficient safety margins during upgrade tasksHoa Hoang, Power Uprate Product Line Leader, GE Hitachi NuclearEnergy

UK SAPS justification requirements for support of plantmodifications• Fully understand the PWR safety margins and safety analysis

requirements for plant modifications

• Review the UK requirements for modifications and compare themwith international practice

• Hear about the necessities of compliance with current and newregulations and how this is critical to your customers, employees andshareholders

Dr John Lillington, Serco

Section 2 - Utility Perspectives andCross-Geographical Learning

Swiss Case Study: Strategy for long-term operation ofthe NPP Beznau Unit 1 and 2 (KKB)• Gain an understanding of the requirements and remits faced by AXPO

when evaluating for extended operation at NPP Beznau• Hear how AXPO mitigated potential risks when planning their forward

strategy and how this can be implemented on similar projects• Hear how AXPO managed plant staff and materials in order to ensure

successful project execution• Simple steps you can take to ensure your future operations are

economically

Herbert Rust, Deputy Site Director, Axpo AG

Czech Republic Case Study: Long-term refurbishment

planning at Dukovany NPP• Understand the importance of creating a forward plan looking at the

history and maintenance records of your nuclear site

• Understand the essentials of equipment replacement, materialconcerns and ageing management

• Create a blueprint for capital increase before performingmodernization tasks

Jaroslav Jakub, Maintenance Manager, Dukovany NPP, ČEZ

Swedish Case Study: Plant Modernization at Ringhals AB• Understand the key issues regarding heavy component replacement

to help ensure your modernization projects run smoothly• Learn about the importance of digital instrumentation and control

systems modernization when undertaking NPP upgrade workLars Eliasson, Vice President Ringhals AB, Vattenfall

Oskarshamn Case Study: Modernization of Unit 2• Review the safety and reliability aspects of work taking place at

Oskarshamn 2

• Take a look at the design and manufacturing work and how thechallenges causing project delays have been overcome

• Moving on to the final step: Looking forward to the completion of theproject in 2013

USA Case Study: Cross-Geographical Learning• Hear about the business case drivers that support refurbishment work

in the USA• Learn about OPPD’s Fort Calhoun Station refurbishment work

including the replacement of its steam generators, pressurizer,

reactor vessel head and low pressure turbines• Assess the effectiveness of the work – was the refurbishment a

beneficial investment?Arun Mani, Partner - Global Energy Consulting Practice, PA Consulting

Section 3 – Business Case

Business case for aging management and life extension

• Should we be investing in modernization now or focus our effortselsewhere?

• Understand all costs associated with operations and maintenance andwhether refurbishment and modernization is a good financial optionfor your sites

• Understand whether your plant modernization efforts will provide asufficient return on investment?

• Take a look at how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades tolevelize your spending

John Fownes, Growth Leader, Aging Management, Westinghouse

Insurance• Evaluate nuclear insurance risk to aid future maintenance and

refurbishment projects• Understand third party liability and how this will affect your projects

Mark Tetley, Managing Director, Nuclear Risk Insurers LtdDr Mike Peach, Technical Manager, Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd

Section 4 – Plant Reliability and Efficiency

Strategies for Make Up, Aging & Obsolescence• Discuss the different possible strategies for make up for aging &

obsolescence with an in-depth look at:o components storage

o cloning with FPGA (field-programmable gate array)o new system

• Understand the benefits and drawbacks from Edf Edf

A long-term approach to operations after 40• Understand the evaluation of long-term operations to ensure future

safe operations

• Understand the financial impacts of life extensions and futureoperations

• Review the work that Electrabel have been implementing to ensurelong-term operations

Geert Backaert, Project Manager Long Term Operation, Electrabel

Equipment obsolescence• Hear how you can find replacement parts during refurbishment and

ensure delays are avoided - Is the supplier for that system orcomponent still in business?

• How Investing heavily into equipment by utilities will help to avoidfuture difficulties during modernization attempts

• Understand the importance of whether or not your plant system is

able to operate reliably for future years without significant investment• Understand whether or not it is a better long-term investment to buy

a new component or reverse-engineer the ones you have - can youobtain the parts?




NUCLEAR MODERNIZATION – THE FACTS!

To celebrate the launch of our inaugural Nuclear

Maintenance and Plant Modernization Conference

2011, I’m giving away access to a presentation from

Nuclear Energy Insider’s Power Uprate conference

from June 2010.

Modernization and Power Uprates in NuclearPower Plants

In this presentation, Mr Alejandro Merino

Teillet, Project Manager with Iberdrola Ingenieria y

Construccion gives a unique insight into:

• Project engineering and the importance to

power uprates

• The importance of implementation of

equipment modifications and retrofitting

during projects

• Lessons learnt from IBERDROLA on the

experience they have learned from outages

during modification tasks

These views are based on a wealth of experience with

Alejandro being the Manager of the Engineering

Department for Nuclear Power Stations with theresponsibility of the development of Flamanvile, Iter

and Cofrentes projects, among others.

I hope you enjoy the presentation and find much value

in it for your business. If you have any comments or

questions please contact me on the details below.

Kind Regards,

Dean Murphy

Senior Industry Analyst

Nuclear Energy Insider

Email: [email protected]

Phone: + 44 (0) 207 375 7204

www.nuclearenergyinsider.com/maintenance

Long-term refurbishment planning• Understand the importance of creating a 10 year plan looking at the

history and maintenance records of your nuclear site

• Understand the essentials of equipment replacement, materialconcerns and ageing management

• Create a blueprint for capital increase before performing

modernization tasksAreva

Reliability of a power plant• Are you confident that your equipment will continue to perform to

meet your expectations in the future?• Understand how we can maintain the reliability of our plant• Hear tips on how to increase our time online to 95%-97% +Jaro Holubec, Head of Nuclear Generation, Slovenské elektrárne

Retrofitting – dealing with mechanical issues• Understand the importance of spending your money on retrofitting to

deal with potential long-term issues• Take a look at some relevant case studies of retrofitting projects from

around the globe

Alstom Power

Preventive and predictive maintenance• Understand the importance of the following during modernization

o Repair

o Inspection

o Surveillanceo Workforce

• The importance of predicative maintenance, why we need to do thisand how to build our strategy towards this

Section 5 - Resources

The role of contractors• Understand what resources are needed from contractors for specific

tasks and how they should be utilized• Understand whether or not contractors will have the resources

available to you to ensure work is not delayed or postponedSteve McClure, Vice Chairman, Britain’s Energy Coast Business Cluster

Market Entry for New Companies• Fully understand the standards and quality levels that are required to

gain entry into the nuclear market

• Hear about the health and safety requirements that will be essentialto help position your organization in the industry

• Gain a clear understanding of the skills required for you to becomeactive in the nuclear market

The French Resources Experience• Understand how the International Nuclear Academy are working to

bridge the skills gap in France

• Learn about the proactive initiatives being implemented by the

French industry to overcome the lack of skills and resources withinthe industry

Anne-Sophie Defay, Business Development Ocer, International

Nuclear Academy


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