September-October 2018 NPJ

40 NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, September-October 2018 the system. In several cases this avoided trips into the plant to obtain status updates on the work, saving dose and allowing the information to be communicated back to the OCC management more quickly. In addition, providing access to the cameras allowed the craft supervisors and managers to better track their own work. During the Peach Bottom outage, RP made hundreds of cameras readily available to personnel utilizing the Digital Plant Viewer. By enabling the personnel to view the cameras directly, it increased efficiency and awareness of current outage activities. It also provided increased visibility across the fleet to the activities occurring at the station allowing for more effective management oversight. After deployment at nuclear sites, the lines at the Radiation Protection briefing window were significantly reduced, since the RP personnel could direct the users to utilize the touch screen interface for routine information. This allowed them to focus their efforts on providing thorough information for the high-risk job specific briefings which were required, as opposed to manually distributing routine information. In addition, during an outage the real-time information Digital Plant Viewer makes available can allow for a better coordination of outage field work tasks. By providing real time status through live camera feeds and dose rates, up to 10% of tasks could begin sooner than originally planned by optimized coordination time. This results in reductions in the outage duration, and resources required due to more efficient use of outage resources including bow wave reduction. By providing faster contractor orientation with the site through self- briefing maps and telemetry, reliance on existing personnel has been reduced to coordinate contractor activities. As contract and new employee resources are given access to self-service information, their initial productivity has been greatly increased. Transferability Digital Plant Viewer has constructed 360 degree photos and digital maps of each Exelon nuclear facility. The equipment was purchased in 2017 for each station to perform the Exelon employees utilizing digital plant viewer to view a virtual tour. image capture necessary to create 360 degree tours of their facility. In addition, field equipment such as interactive touch screens, cameras, telemetry, servers, and computer hardware items necessary to implement across the fleet were procured. The implementation plan for deploying Digital Plant Viewer throughout the Exelon fleet could also be utilized for other industrial facilities as well. Exelon employees utilizing digital plant viewer to view a live camera. Digital Plant... ( Continued from page 39)