Analysis Committee

Mission

The mission of the PWROG Analysis Committee (ASC) is to utilize its membership’s knowledge and experience to improve plant safety, resolve emergent issues, improve plant operational margins and implement cost improvements at members' sites.

Values

Safety Analysis is the analytical framework that demonstrates the safe operation of a nuclear facility. The value that the Analysis Committee brings is the ability to simulate complex phenomena and leverage both utility and vendor expertise to support safe and cost-effective performance of nuclear plants on a cost-shared basis.

The ASC strives to develop positions, methods, processes and tools that provide great value to the membership to solve emergent issues generically, identify cost-effective improvements to plant operation and support improvements to emergency procedures.

Core Teams & Focus Areas

Dose Core Team
The Dose Core Team identifies and oversees ASC activities that improve analytical margin for responding to emergent issues, improving loading pattern economics, relaxing dose-related technical specification limits and influencing plant modifications.

Fuel Core Team
The Fuel Core Team identifies and oversees ASC activities that improve analytical margin to fuel-related limits (e.g. DNBR, LOCA, Fuel Mechanical, etc.), improves outage duration by relaxing requirements for physics testing, resolves emergent issues that challenge thermal limits and improves fuel-related technical specifications.

Transient Core Team
The Transient Core Team identifies and oversees ASC activities that simulate plant accident responses to improve the basis for emergency procedures, develops positions and approaches to generic NRC regulations, reduces refueling outage durations and improves plant operation.