Chairperson - Sue Quint - Company Secretary - BNFL

Section 1: Nuclear Decommissioning Market and Supply Chain Overview

Overview of the Nuclear Decommissioning Supply Chain

• Understand key information regarding the NDA, its stakeholders and the importance of the supply chain to gain a clear insight into the current position of the decommissioning industry
• Learn how to work best with the Site Licence Companies to help ensure future site contracts
• Discover how to create opportunities for new market entrants in the decommissioning sector and to help provide a more flexible and efficient supply chain
• Understand the Supply Chain Charter and future developments for the decommissioning supply chain in the UK market

Daniel Grosvenor - Director, Corporate Finance - Deloitte

Managing the Nuclear Decommissioning Supply Chain

• Learn how to manage the nuclear supply chain effectively whilst getting the most out of the workforce, utilising their ideas and allowing for innovation
• Understand the procedures and systems to see where contractors are spending money on decommissioning projects
• Discover how to encourage innovation that can be monitored and keep overall costs down in order to aid decommissioning efforts
• Understand why it is important to create contractor opportunities for new market entrants in the nuclear decommissioning field

• Learn how to fully utilise contractors regarding new practice in order to ensure decommissioning targets are achieved
• Understand best practice for SLCs and contractors to work together in order to identify opportunities and improve performance under current agreements
• Uncover the ways to preserve contractors’ innovative ideas whilst ensuring they are rewarded for sharing them when not in contract
• Gain an understanding of how you can achieve aggregation and long-term contracts with large contractors to reduce your first tier supplier base

Helen Simms - Nuclear Services Director - AMEC

• The Case Study is still being discussed

John Merrell - UK Decommissioning Manager - Westinghouse

Section 2: Contractual, Regulatory and Financial Frameworks

Allocation and handling of Key Risks

• Evaluate site condition, radiological and non-radiological contamination risks in decommissioning to ensure good site safety
• Evaluate where the allocation of risks lie pursuant to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965
• Discover how to comply with existing licence conditions and gain a good understanding of planning permission and other regulatory consents
• Understand indemnities to and from the site licence holder and the engagement with and the intervention of the regulator

Paul Rice - Partner - Pinsent Masons

• Learn how to create the ideal Tier 2 contract and meet the need for innovation when drafting contracts
• Understand how to provide an incentives model in order to reward waste minimisation
• Evaluate the concerns with target cost & time arrangements to ensure you have a solid foundation of knowledge on how to best structure a decommissioning contract
• Discover how to draft contracts in order to avoid disputes

Hamish Lal – Partner and London Head of Construction - Jones Day

Our Contingent Liability: Your Contingent Asset - Managing Decommissioning Finances

• Gain an understanding of the size of the addressable nuclear market to understand where your company lies in the industry
• Evaluate the financial complexities of the nuclear decommissioning supply chain and ensure you are up-to-date with the industry
• Understand how to finance nuclear decommissioning and achieve value for money
• Learn how to address financial uncertainty through the supply chain and help to achieve nuclear decommissioning targets

Gary Nicholson - Partner - Ernst & Young

Section 3: Nuclear Decommissioning Advancements and Technology

• Uncover what ‘value’ is in the decommissioning marketplace and why you should be involved
• Understand the advancements of decommissioning and get a real idea about the benefits of being involved in this market
• Realism, optimism, pragmatism - help or hindrance?
• Understanding whether there should be a priority over improving delivery or improving procurement

Peter Lutwyche – Nuclear Operations Director - Jacobs

Nuclear Decommissioning Advancements

• Learn how to ensure decommissioning advancements and prevent the nuclear plant from standing still
• Understand how to reduce necessary large fixed maintenance costs whilst ensuring the site is kept safe, secure and environmentally sound
• Ensure you manage your projects effectively in order to gain the best decommissioning results every time
• Evaluate how to be more financially efficient when spending your annual budget to ensure optimum decommissioning advancements

Speaker to be confirmed - UKAEA

Using Technology to Provide Cost-Effective Solutions to Cleanup and Decommissioning

• Discover which technology approaches can be used for clean up and plant decommissioning
• Gain insight into examples of innovative technology and how these can reduce costs and accelerate your decommissioning project
• Understand what technologies will be made available in the future to help fill any current technological gaps
• Discover how these future technologies can be applied to your nuclear decommissioning projects and how they can help your business

Graham Fairhall – Chief Science and Technology Officer - National Nuclear Laboratories

• Understand and utilise knowledge from disciplines outside of the nuclear industry in order to improve decommissioning efforts
• Delve deeper into North Sea Decommissioning best practice and learn from oil and gas experiences to discover how their findings can help the nuclear industry
• Address the technological gaps in the decommissioning industry that could be solved with technology – how far away are we from this?
• Discover what transferrable technology can be utilised from other industries in order to fill the current gaps in the nuclear industry

Reducing Liability and Finding Decommissioning Solutions

• Understand how to reduce exposure to high levels of radiation, high contamination and other toxic atmospheres to ensure personnel safety
• Investigate the balancing of prototype versus standardised equipment solutions in order to understand which is best for your decommissioning efforts

• Learn how to ensure that your technology is effective and reliable for nuclear decommissioning solutions in order to reduce liability
• Discover how current technologies can help you to reduce liability on nuclear sites

Technology Innovation Panel – Receive an exclusive update on innovation in decommissioning technology

• Environmental
• Decontamination
• Robotics and Dismantlement
• Health and Safety

Section 4: On-Site Safety and Cleanup

Regulation, Decommissioning and the Supply Chain - Fit for the future?

• Understand the global and nationalsocial, political and industrial environmentwith regards to nuclear decommissioning
• Learn about the changes inInternationaland National regulation and gain an understanding of what this means for you
• Discover what the implications are for the UK and its supply industry with regards to decommissioning
• Find out what the way forward is regarding regulation, decommissioning and the nuclear supply chain from the HSE

Dr Mike Weightman – HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations - Health and Safety Executive

Supply Chain Opportunities to Optimise Decommissioning Cleanup

• Understand the regulatory frameworks regarding decommissioning cleanup from the Environment Agency
• A highlight of the opportunities that exist for the supply chain through the Environment Agency
• Evaluate supply chain contribution in the nuclear industry and how we can improve in order to optimise decommissioning cleanup
• Understand the fundamentals of supply chain involvement and innovation to ensure cleanup

Dr Juliet Long – Head of Radioactive Substances Regulation - Environment Agency

Tier 1 Contractor and Supply Chain Teaming Approach for Enhanced Safety Performance

• Gain a mutual understanding of the relationship and flow down of requirements to guarantee a more efficient supply chain
• Learn how to ensure that the supply chain understands the site safety culture and expectations for performance
• Evaluate the effective methods in working together to ensure safe execution of work within the decommissioning field
• Gain awareness of tier 1 contractor programs to ensure effective safe implementation of supply chain scope

John Lehew – President and Chief Executive Officer - CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company

Section 5: Economics and The Next Generation

Socio-Economics in Nuclear Decommissioning

• Understand the socio-economic factors related to nuclear decommissioning
• Learn how to work with the community to ensure a good relationship throughout decommissioning and enhance opportunities for local people
• Discover how to retain skilled workers when decommissioning projects have been completed
• Learn how to ensure minimum impact on the community when decommissioning projects are completed

Steve Wheeler – Director of Nuclear Development - Serco

Nuclear Site Best Practice Panel

• An opportunity for representatives from nuclear sites to share their knowledge and experiences

Supplying the Next Generation for the Nuclear Industry

• Understand what the Nuclear Industry skill needs are for future years
• Learn how to effectively utilise the nuclear workforce in order to help advance decommissioning efforts
• Discover what education and training is available to the industry and how this can help your business
• Understand how to deliver training to the next generation of nuclear workers to ensure well-trained personnel are available to the industry

Jean Llewellyn – Chief Executive - National Skills Academy for Nuclear

Clive Smith – Skills Director for Nuclear - Cogent SSC

• Recognise and utilise the SQEP workforce in the current nuclear decommissioning workforce
• Understand the challenges facing a SQEP decommissioning workforce in the changing nuclear industry
• Take away an understanding of the training and development strategy for maintaining a SQEP decommissioning workforce
• Discover how to transfer the workforce from other industries and understand the pros and cons

Raj Thakor - HR Business Partner (Training & Development) - Nuvia

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