Nuclear Operations Branch Outage Management Strategy

Abstract

In 1991, partly in response to declining nuclear performance in Ontario Hydro, six priority areas were chosen where improvement efforts should be focused. Of these, outage management has the greatest potential for increasing near-term electrical generation. Many initiatives are being undertaken to improve our performance in this key area. The outage management strategy is intended to focus these improvement efforts and put outage management at Ontario Hydro's nuclear generating stations on a more predictable and business-like basis. This paper outlines the strategic planning process and provides an overview of the outage management strategy.