Adapting best practices and lessons learned is key to standardizing design and project execution, reducing cost and schedule risk, and achieving economic competitiveness for nuclear energy. NEI 20-08, “Strategic Project Management Lessons Learned & Best Practices for New Nuclear Power Construction,” identifies 14 areas of construction best practices, with a total of 59 key construction best practices, that have been critical in the successful execution of large complex projects. Implementation guides (IG) are developed to explain how these best practices can be incorporated into actual new nuclear projects. The development and construction of nuclear power plants, whether First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) or Nth of a Kind (NOAK) are subject to relatively long project schedules and need to account for uncertainty, and FOAK construction has additional elements that add to the overall risk.
The following are the high-level key insights of this IG, which provides guidance and recommendations associated with reducing FOAK risks, construction shiftwork issues, and benefits and/or drawbacks of modularization. This guide is written primarily from the perspective of internal stakeholders that are directly engaged in the new nuclear power project.
The following are the high-level key insights of this IG, which provides guidance and recommendations associated with reducing FOAK risks, construction shiftwork issues, and benefits and/or drawbacks of modularization. This guide is written primarily from the perspective of internal stakeholders that are directly engaged in the new nuclear power project.
The Executive Summary is publicly available. The complete Implementation Guide is available only to NEI members, here.