COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR WASTE SUMMIT 2007
21 & 22 May 2007
| 0830 |
Coffee and Registration |
| 0900 |
Chairman’s Opening Comments – Delivering An Innovative Approach To Delivery That Is Both Commercially and Technically Viable |
John Earp, President, BNES
Crystallising the key issues for the conference, the chair will invite the audience to swap business cards and set the scene for the day by sharing views on -
“How can the nuclear clean up industry improve on what it does, both commercially and technically?”
| Gaining Clarity From The NDA |
| 0915 |
Overview of the Supply Chain: A Client’s Perspective |
- What is the future of the NDA supply chain?
- Evaluating the role of the NDA in supply chain development
- Assessing the key blockers and enablers
Ron Gorham, Head of Supply Chain, NDA
| UK & EU FINANCING STRATEGIES PANEL |
| 0940 |
Comparing & Contrasting UK & EU Policy & Financing Strategies |
A. Gaining Clarity On The Future Priorities Of The UK & EU Nuclear Waste Programmes
- Understanding the priorities of the UK Government and arrangements for costs
- What is the agenda?
- Analysing timescales for future revenue commitments given shortfalls in plant revenues
B. Understanding The Impact Of The Different Financing Strategies Across EU Countries And Relating These Financial Lessons To The UK Context
- What Are The Key Lessons To Be Learned On Cost Estimates From Europe’s Leading Nuclear Clean Up Initiatives?
Christian Kirchsteiger, Project Officer – Horizontal & Economic Aspects of Nuclear Energy, Directorate Tren-H-2, European Commission
Dr. Tim Stone, Senior Advisor to Government on Financing Nuclear New Build Decommissioning & Waste Management
| 1020 |
Structuring Secure Financial Contracts For The Supply Chain – A Site Decommissioners’ View |
- Strategies for dealing with risk and reward incentives
- Analysing penalties of failure to deliver the fee and impact on new agents coming into the business
- Establishing a balance sheet for people
- Deciding whether operation is via SPVs (Special Project Vehicles) or with full recourse back to the Parents
Representative, Commercial & Contracts Directorate, British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd
Richard Beake, Head of Business Development, Bechtel Management Ltd
Tom Cummings, Commercial Director, Amec Nuclear Ltd
Julia Pyke, Partner, Herbert Smith
| 1100 |
Refreshment and Exhibition Visit |
| TIER 2 PERSPECTIVES ON BEST COMMERCIAL PRACTICE |
| 1130 |
Structuring Viable Contractual Arrangements Across Integrated Project Teams To Promote ROI And Overcome Technical Difficulties |
- Structuring the contractual arrangements
- Constructing clauses to overcome technical difficulties
Chris Ball, Head of Decommissioning & Clean Up Division, Atkins
| 1155 |
Assessing Tier 2 Risk Management Strategies For 1. Hazards 2. Longevity Of Contract |
- Managing hazard related risk
- Managing risk relating to longevity of contract
Stuart Cowperthwaite, Director, White Young Green
| 1220 |
Understanding The Key Legal Issues That Need To Be Considered When Structuring Tier 1 and 2 Supply Chain Contracts |
This session will also examine strategies for contract bundling and sub contracting packages
Peter Swenson, Programme Director, CH2M Hill and Mark Richards, Partner, Pinsent Masons
| 1245 |
Lunch and Exhibition Visit |
| FOCUS ON UK SITES - SPELLING OUT THE KEY TIMEFRAMES, BUDGETS, COST FORECASTS AND RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS |
| 1415 |
Simplifying The Procurement Process To Meet Skilling And Resource Requirements |
- Achieving closer and more accurate visibility for better management and resource
- Accurate times when they will come out to tender
- How long will they take?
- Project costs and clarification
Stephen White, Director of Business Strategy, UKAEA
| 1440 |
An Integrated Nuclear Waste Management Programme for Sellafield |
- Challenges facing the site
- Establishing an integrated programme
- Issues arising form the integrated programme
- Implications for managing the site over time
- Involvement of the supply chain
Pete Wylie, Head of Strategy Development, British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd
| 1505 |
Securing Resources To Complete Decommissioning |
- Likely technologies to be adopted
- Resource requirements – working with the community
- Client requirements
- Identifying the key skill sets that will be required
Simon Parsons, Site Director, Trawsfynydd
| 1530 |
Refreshments and Exhibition Visit |
| 1600 |
Application of Commercial Strategies from the US to Dounreay |
- Assessing the framework of contracts
- Flexibility of training and workforce to enable decommissioning
- Applying safety criteria to contracting as well as decommissioning work
- Applying incentives within the contracts
John Lehew, Head of Decommissioning, Dounreay
| 1625 |
International Case Study |
Scoping Out The Costs Of Cradle To Grave Project Life Cycle Management
- Financing strategy and contracts
- Safety & environment
- Challenges they faced, what was right for them
| 1650 |
END OF DAY PAN-AUDIENCE DISCUSSION |
Discussion facilitated by Chair, Paul Longsworth, Executive Director, Fluor
A. Future Investment Planning
- How the whole UK waste strategy will fit together in terms of the waste volumes generated
B. IP Commercial Innovation – Identifying How The Development Of IP Rights Could Work In The Nuclear Industry
- How do you make IP commercially innovative?
European Delegates will be invited to share their thoughts in a pan-audience discussion moderated by the Chairman
| 1730 |
End of Day One followed by Networking Drinks Reception in the Exhibition area |
| 0830 |
Coffee and Registration |
| 0845 |
Chairman’s Opening Remarks |
Paul Longsworth, Executive Director, Fluor
| Investing In A Long Term Workforce For Nuclear |
| 0850 |
Round Table Panel Discussion: Assuring The Resources To Enable A Future Nuclear Workforce |
- Setting the standard and qualifications for learning and assessment
- Developing an optimum training system to bring out the best material across the UK
- Assessing the viability of transferring installation & maintenance strategies to nuclear
John Haddon, Head of Skills Development, Cogent
Jean Llewellyn, Project Director, National Skills Academy
| International Case Studies: Examining The Commercial Implications Of Defining Waste Characterisation |
| 0930 |
International Case Study |
Commercial Strategies for Defining Low, Intermediate And High Level Waste
- Examining the commercial implications of characterising waste
- Establishing the nature of components of the waste
- Different criteria between low level and Intermediate level waste
- What is exempt: creating criteria of exemption
- Evaluating difficulty of standard packages and processing methods
- Commercial innovation through variation of packages
- What is the interim storage capacity requirement and how is it intended to fulfil that and bring it into place
| 0955 |
Commercial Lessons From Storing Deep Geological Waste at Clive, Utah |
- Establishing a disposal facility in a remote arid environment
- Developing a robust Waste Acceptance Criteria
- Community involvement
- Integration of Disposal facility Operations with major decommissioning projects
Paul Larson, VP International Group, EnergySolutions
| 1020 |
From Theory To Practice: Planning Strategies To Ensure Successful Project Management For The Building Of A Repository |
- Cost and resource requirements
- Future timelines
- Project challenges
Claes Lindberg, President, SKB International Consultants
| 1045 |
Refreshments and Exhibition Visit |
| 1115 |
Switzerland: Gaining of public acceptance for geological repositories |
- A stepwise and transparent decision making process
- Accounting for the socio-economic aspects
- Gaining public acceptance through participation
Michael Aebersold, Head, Disposal of Radioactive Waste Section, Swiss Federal Office of Energy
| 1140 |
Sharing Practical International Experience On Successfully Securing Funds For The Future Nuclear Waste Management Liabilities |
- Evaluating economic impacts of nuclear waste management
- Strategies for funding the repository: public companies and future investment
- Providing and achieving cost estimates in uncertain time spans
Jussi Palmu, Senior Manager, Planning, Posiva Oy
| 1205 |
Transferring Lessons On Managing Resource and Socio-Economic Investment Forces at Yucca Mountain, USA |
Paul Golan, Principle Deputy Director of the Office of Rad Waste Management, US Department of Energy
| 1230 |
Lunch and Exhibition Visit |
| 1400 |
Strategies For Minimising The Costs Of Clearance Zones |
- Assessing the new business opportunities associated with clearance zones
- Strategies for the disposal or/and recycling of post demolition materials including metals
- Land remediation
- Sentencing the waste to the different routes dependent on components and level of radio nuclei
- How can the industry drive this forward?
Joint Presentation: John Palmer, Waste Manager, Mott MacDonald & David Wallace, Vice President, CDM
| Assessing The Commercial Advantages Of The Different Techniques For Minimising Waste Volumes |
Understanding The Complex Technical, Commercial And Financial Issues Associated With Decontamination, Segregation and Recycling
| 1425 |
Strategies For The Cost And Safety Optimisation Of The Waste Management And Decontamination Processes |
- Policy & strategies for dealing with high level, intermediate and low level waste
- Establishing a breakdown in the costs for waste
- Layout, design and set-up of waste facilities
- Conditioning processes for reducing the waste that goes into long term storage
- Identifying the optimum processes: what do you do with the waste once it is in the vault/building?
- Interim storage of waste for 100 years
Ewoud Verhouf, Project Manager, Covra
| 1450 |
Assessing The Economic Viability Of Decontamination and Segregation |
- Comparison of decontamination processes
- Cost efficiency and technical success of using innovative agents alone or in conjunction with traditional processes
- Contamination levels
- Best environmental issues
- Overview of PHADEC (PHosporic Acid DEContamination process) and analysis of key commercial data
Gerd Edler, Business Development Manager, Babcock Noell
| Assessing The Commercial Advantages Of The Different Techniques For Minimising Waste Volumes |
| 1515 |
A. GeoMelt Technology |
Life Cycle Cost Benefits from Waste Treatment Remedies that Result in Volume Reduction and Permanence: A Case Study
- The status quo
- Drivers for change
- Challenges and benefits of more complex treatment remedies
- Overview of a case study, GeoMelt vitrification of problematic waste
Leo Thompson, Technology Director, Amec
| 1540 |
Refreshments & Exhibition Visit |
| 1610 |
B. Plasma Solution to Waste Streams Including Wet ILW |
- Flexibility of the Technology
- Technical performance of the waste form
- Through life cost benefits
- Environmental benefits
Sector Director, Costain & Technical Director, Tetronics
| 1635 |
Demonstrating Compliance With Disposal |
- UK repository concept and waste package specifications
- LoC process to gain endorsement of disposability
- Complying with endorsement through management systems
- The role of audits – ongoing compliance
Simon Wisby, Head of Packaging Assessment Team, Nirex
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| Post Conference Workshop 23rd May 2007 Making IP Rights Commercially Innovative . . More |
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Nuclear Decommissioning Heads of Strategy