OPG Licensing Basis Project

Candesco team members managed and provided technical experts for the OPG Licensing Basis Project. This project included the development of the Analysis of Record and physical updates of the Safety Reports of all OPG and Bruce stations.

Candesco staff led the reorganization of the existing Safety Report structure into a new framework to facilitate efficient updates every three years as mandated by the regulatory authority. Candesco both developed the new framework and applied it to the safety reports for all licensed facilities at Ontario Power Generation. This framework has been successfully applied to two subsequent safety report update cycles at both Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power.

Included in the Licensing Basis Project was a review of the entire body of written communication with the Canadian Regulator from two years before the first operating license to the present day. This effort covered over 30 years of regulatory interface and involved the review of over 29,000 historical letters and documents and the subsequent identification and dissemination of 54,000 individual regulatory commitments. Candesco staff both managed this project and developed the information technology databases and processes that allowed this effort to be performed in an efficient and robust manner. In addition, Candesco converted the work management database into a full text searchable knowledge repository tool.

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