World Association of Nuclear Operators

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has been formed, consisting of nuclear plant operators over the entire world who have pledged to assist each other in the achievement of safe operations (25). There are four centers from which this international program is adrninistered one in the United States in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by INPO one in Paris operated by Electricitir de Prance one in Moscow operated by the Ministry of Nuclear Power and one in Tokyo operated by the Central Research Institute for the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). Through this mechanism, teams of operators from the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia visit CIS plants to share safety experience and know-how, and similarly, plant personnel from Russian and Eastern European nuclear units visit European, Asian, and U.S. plants. 

Works-made-for-hire, 7 787 Work-to-break, 19 743 World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), 17 538. See also Global entries... 

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The symptoms of an illness might be around us, a desire to disregard past experience of accidents, which, if it should continue to grow, might really impair the safety of nuclear plants. On the one hand, a past WANO (World Association of Nuclear Operators) president has publicly declared, from his special observation point, that the interest in the lessons of experience is decreasing among operators. 

The next source is the private service supplied by the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) to its members. It represents a responsible and commendable response of the nuclear operators worldwide to the need to pool the available experience in order to attain ever safer plant operation. 

The record indicates that no British Energy workers or contractors exceeded the U.K. annual limits on radiation exposure (50 milli-sieverts). Furthermore, 98% of the workers received less than five percent of the annual limit (2.5 milli-sieverts). Another positive safety indication was that the collective dose to radiation workers at British Energy s reactors has declined from 0.174 milli-sieverts in 1996-1997 to 0.166 milli-sieverts in 1997-1998. Both levels are nearly an order of magnitude lower than the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) midyear median value of 1.17 milli-sieverts per reactor. 

Overall, the industry appears to be maturing, reactor performance in a number of areas is improving, and there is a general safety benefit associated with the resulting steady-state operations. Some of this improvement in both economic and safety performance is attributable to bench-marking, peer reviews, and other cooperative industry programs in particular, the programs of INFO, EPRI, and the World Association of Nuclear Operators are cited as beneficial by NEI (1999). 

Official guidehne documents (IAEA guides. World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) reports. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INFO) reports, etc.) ... 

In several missions carried out by the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), it was found that there was no overall evaluation process for the preventive maintenance programme in some power plants. This programme is usually developed in detail for all equipment for plant safety and reliability. The responsibilities are clearly defined. The progress of the preventive maintenance programme is usually evaluated once a year, but the indicators used do not assess its effectiveness. 

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