Case Study
FPL Improves ALARA using
Quantapoint Digital Facility
Situation and Challenge
FPL performed a Six-Sigma evaluation to determine how to improve their on-site institute of
Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) performance. The team discovered that the plants performance
in Collective Radiation Exposure (CRE) was weighting down both the site and fleet industry
ranking.
Recommendations from the Six-Sigma team included both process and procedural changes to
improve the site’s CRE:
• Reduce the amount of field rework
• Improve work planning
• Implement better pre-job briefs
• Minimize the number of field walk downs
• Ownership of Dose
The ALARA group solution is to remove as many unknowns as possible during work planning.
Traditional walk downs and mock training were determined to have minimal impact. The decision
was made to utilize technology to achieve ALARA goals.
Solution and Results
Quantapoint was selected to perform digitizing that would
generate a complete 3D Digital Facility of both containment and
auxiliary buildings. The “Digital Facility” is a highly detailed digital
version of an existing facility where critical information can be
easily accessed on laptops, workstations and tablets.
Intelligence was added to the Digital Facility using Quantapoint’s PRISM Inspector program. Over 3,000
individual assets have been tagged in a component database so that plant operations can instantly
locate valves and other equipment without having to enter the radiologically controlled area (RCA).
Investment Quickly Validated
“The Digital Facility was used to satisfy NRC audit requests for installed configurations of
components within containment that could not be otherwise accessed with the unit at power.
This saved us from having to do a containment entry at power”. - FPL EPU Engineering
Manager.
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