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Plant Maintenance &
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Nuclear
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September-October, 2014
Volume 32 No. 5
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page 28
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page 32
RiverBend,USA
ISSN:0892-2055
Back2Basics
Behaviors
ByEricOlson,EntergyNuclear.
EricOlson
EricOlson is site vice president at
Entergy’sRiverBend Station in St.
Francisville,La.He came toRiverBend
inApril 2007 as thegeneralmanager
of plant operationsand later took the
position of vicepresident.Olsonhas 33
years of experience innuclear power.
He served in the
NuclearNavyand
became an instructor
at theNuclearNavy
Prototype in Idaho
Falls, Id.He served
on board theUSS
WilliamH.Bates
(SSN 680), a fast
attack submarine.
Olsonworkedat the
SanOnofreNuclear
Generating and
PaloVerdeNuclear
Generating Station,
andwithBoston
EdisonCompany at thePilgrimNuclear
Power Station.Olson is a graduateof
theWentworth Institute ofTechnology.
He holds a bachelorof science in
MechanicalEngineeringTechnology.
Hewas also aNuclearRegulatory
Commission-licensed senior reactor
operator and graduate of the Institute
ofNuclearPowerOperations’Senior
NuclearPlantManagementCourse.
Organizational risk, or any risk,
can be represented by aGreek equation:
E(µ
ǿȇ
,
Ȥ
) =
ȈȤİȤȇ
(X)µ(X). Problem is,
that’sa littlehardforpracticalapplication.
In English, this translates to: Expected
Value= (oddsofgain)x (valueofgain).
Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert
introduced me to this equation when I
watchedhispresentation,“WhyWeMake
BadDecisions.”Gilbert said thatDaniel
Bernoulli, a Greek mathematician who
formulated the equation in 1738, gave
theworld a gift by providing amethod to
evaluate how to do the right thing at all
possible times.WhilewatchingGilbert’s
presentation, I realized thatwe had been
effectively using Bernoulli’s process at
Entergy Nuclear’s River Bend Station
since August 2012. There, we used the
equation to transform
a struggling 600-plus
employee station into
awinning culture in a
short period of time.
TheRiverBend equa-
tion looksonly slight-
ly different than the
translated Bernoulli
equation.
AtRiverBendSta-
tion,ourownversionof
the equation translated
toRisk =Consequence
xProbability–Mitigat-
ingActions.
The credit for our successes goes
to the 630 nuclear professionals who
come towork every day striving to reach
new levels of excellence.They are hard-
working individuals who understand
that our job is to safely and securely
produce power for customers. Our job
is to helpmake the lives of those in our
community better. Bernoulli’s equation
helped convert River Bend Station from
a reactive workforce to a team that
is constantly and proactively looking
for new and creative solutions to our
challenges andopportunities.
Bernoulli’s equation also helped us
differentiate required work from work
that could be given a lower priority,
which in turn mitigated unanticipated
issues. This allowed our team members
to have a significantly improved work/
life balance. But, most importantly, it
allowed our organization to align around
a fundamental approach so that we
could come together as a team to do the
right work at the right time to prevent
unanticipated issues.
In recent years, River Bend Station
hadexperiencedinconsistentperformance
thatdidnotmeetexpectations.Weneeded
a game-changer.
The plant’s leadership team initially
conducted a common cause evaluation
for critical component issues over a two-
yearperiod.Theanalysis revealed that the
River Bend Station organization did not
exhibit an aligned,operationally focused,
risk-based culture. We did not execute
well,andour leaderswerenot intrusive in
their organizations and in understanding
the actual standards that existed, rather
than theones they expected to exist.
The plant did have a good integrated
risk process thatwasworking to protect
the plant from active work. Our issue
was around theworkwewere not doing
which we termed ‘passive’ risk. Passive
risk is found in the plant’s backlogs:
unmitigated single point vulnerabilities;
first time high critical preventive
maintenance; deferred, late or deep-
in-grace preventive maintenance; and
extent of condition actions buried in the
corrective actions backlog. Themajority
of our equipment reliability issues were
found in thesebacklogs.
Using the risk equation, the plant’s
leadership ranked backlogs by highest
riskandapplied theappropriatemitigation
actions, such as appropriate preventive
maintenanceactivities, toprevent failures
before theyoccurred.
We needed strong communication
tools to align the organization.Also,we
needed team building initiatives to break
RiverBendStation employees
celebrateEarthDay.
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NuclearPlantJournal.com NuclearPlant Journal,September-October 2014
Entergy’s River Bend Employees Credited
The September-October 2014 issue of
the Journal featured Entergy's River
Bend Station on the cover and in the
editorial. Would you like to have your
plant featured on the cover of Nuclear
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