Certrec’s Inspection Management System Streamlines the NRC Inspection Process for Users with Version 3

Certrec, a leading provider of energy compliance and advanced SaaS applications, has announced Version 3 of its Inspection Management System (IMS). With Version 3, IMS continues to simplify the management of documentation and action items during a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection. This significantly reduces the number of billable hours and time spent supporting the inspection.

The NRC has a comprehensive program of inspections for commercial nuclear power plants. The NRC inspectors must verify that the organizational structure, operator qualifications, design, maintenance, fuel handling, and environmental and radiation protection programs are adequate and comply with NRC safety requirements.

Both industry and NRC personnel understand the significant amount of time saved by using IMS to manage and organize an inspection. Certrec’s IMS, used by most US commercial nuclear power plants and their NRC inspectors, helps personnel to exchange and organize important documents and to track action items to closure. Certrec’s IMS is a SaaS application available from anywhere through the internet and was a key solution allowing NRC and licensees to continue effective inspection during the COVID pandemic sequestering.

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Originally, IMS replaced the traditional “Bag Man” trip where the NRC inspector traveled to the site and gathered extensive documentation. The IMS handles document exchange electronically, reducing the NRC’s time commitment and the licensees’ cost due to reduced billable NRC hours. From its simple beginnings, IMS has grown to manage questions, answers, and additional document requests, allowing everyone involved in the inspection to have real-time status of all requests and actions.

The NRC directly charges the licensee for hours used to conduct an inspection. More than a thousand times each month, NRC personnel interface with IMS, saving time, money, and streamlining the inspection process.

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Certrec IMS V3 offers nuclear professionals enhanced functionality and 35 new features. These features enhance security and increase productivity. In addition, IMS V3 is now compliant with FedRAMP. Several new features include:

• enhanced reporting and subscriptions.
• the ability to restrict a file so it will open in a secure PDF viewer.
• enhanced inspection preparation package features.

After completing training for IMS V3, the feedback from South Texas Projects’ Nuclear Regulatory Affairs was: “Several of our site folks have attended the training for IMS V3, and their feedback has all been positive. They believe the new and updated features in V3 will all be helpful. They also thought they were intuitive to use.”

Keeping track of NRC requests and time management is a challenging activity. An individual may have to cope with more than a hundred requests in each NRC inspection category. The IMS platform helps streamline the workflow and alerts users of an item’s status. NRC inspections are costly to the licensees and failing to effectively manage time and resources can result in significantly increased direct costs.

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