The Coreworx ITAAC Management solution provides best-in-class project management tools to fully satisfy the requirements for managing ITAAC Closure under 10 CFR Part 52. By providing project stakeholders with one common system for ITAAC planning, execution and closure, key work processes including management of vendor deliverables, verification of deliverables, ITAAC maintenance, preparation of ITAAC closure packages, corrective actions, registry of all pre-operational maintenance and project change control are fully integrated. The Licensee can now easily monitor and control the scope, schedule and quality of ITAAC. Project dashboards provide real-time, transparent visibility to all project stakeholders, with measures designed specifically to monitor progress and earned value with full traceability to related ITAAC deliverables and activities.

The Coreworx ITAAC Management solution has the potential to significantly mitigate risk, thereby increasing confidence of investors and insurance underwriters. While ITAAC is, at least for the time being, a nuclear-only term, other industries including fossil power generation, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, and mining are beginning to recognize the value in applying consistent best practice and self-regulation to construction of large-scale construction projects.

Managing ITAAC with effective project controls is essential to ensuring the successful closure of all ITAAC before a licensee may operate the constructed nuclear facility. Specific challenges include:

Schedule complexity: Every inspection, test and analysis document that is required for successful closure of an ITAAC criterion must be scoped during the planning phase of the project. The net result is managing thousands of ITAAC documents. In addition, it is estimated that the NRC will conduct 35,000 inspection hours on site for which most owners anticipate between 3-4X the preparation time.

Financial Impact of delays: Every day that the licensee is delayed represents a financial impact of a minimum $1 million cost per day in lost revenue.

Originators span the Supply Chain and the Globe: Documentation to satisfy closure of an ITAAC will come from various levels in the supply chain, from across the globe, in various languages.

Management of Change and Corrective Action: Every plan is subject to change; every process can be improved.  Lessons learned from ITAAC closure early in the project will be applied to improve quality and efficiency in subsequent ITAAC closures.