Your Commitment to Excellence
Membership Obligations
Below are examples of some of the member obligations upon joining WANO:
Governance
- Chief Executives of member organisations actively participate in the governance of WANO to ensure the success of WANO, and to improve the operational excellence of their own stations and support nuclear safety among all members.
- WANO governors are chief executives, senior executives, or director general level, responsible for the member’s nuclear power programme and decision-making.
- Each member safeguards the information shared among members and only releases information with the approval of the originating member and in accordance with WANO approved confidentiality requirements. Additionally, members comply with WANO classifications of information, including assessment ratings, peer review results, and document categories to appropriately maintain the confidentiality of information.
Membership Fees
- Each member pays required membership fees on time and provides high quality, experienced personnel to support the WANO mission and activities in the regional centres and London Office for sufficiently long terms (for example, three to four years), and integrates these personnel back into the industry following WANO assignments.
Peer Review and Performance Improvement
- Each member hosts and supports peer reviews of member organisations, including peer reviews for operating stations, pre-startup peer reviews for new units and corporate peer reviews, at a frequency established by the WANO Governing Board.
- Each member takes timely action to correct performance issues identified during WANO peer reviews and seeks support from WANO Regional Centres and other members to resolve significant issues.
- In keeping with the requirements of WANO Policy Document 10, Member Performance Improvement, plants, facilities or corporate organisations recognised as needing increased assistance are accountable to accept assistance offered and improve their performance. Each member plant/or corporate staff develops an improvement plan with assistance of their WANO Regional Centre. This improvement plan is developed within an appropriate timescale and should define clear milestones and effectiveness measures for its implementation.
- To support implementation of an enhanced monitoring process for each plant requiring increased assistance, members openly share available plant metrics and event history with Regional Centre staff on an ongoing basis to allow for robust performance monitoring.
- Members collect, analyse and share operating experience, and evaluate and implement all applicable WANO Significant Operating Experience Report (SOER) recommendations as soon as possible.
Engagement with WANO
- Each member endeavours to participate in seminars, workshops, leadership courses and expert meetings to support improvements in operational safety and reliability, led by WANO.
- Each member will appoint a single point of contact (a WANO Interface Officer) responsible for the interface between his/her utility and its plants and WANO (Regional Centre and London Office).
- Members participate in member support activities, including Member Support Missions, reporting of performance indicator data and using Guidelines and Good Practices documents to identify further improvements and support other members.
New Units
- Members with new units are expected to join WANO no later than the first nuclear concrete pour and obtain WANO support for New Unit Assistance (NUA).
- Whilst our services support the entire lifecycle of a plant’s operation, plants are welcome to join WANO as early as they are during the planning stage (prior to concrete pour). If you are unsure about whether your organisation qualifies for membership, please use our decision tree.
All members accept their individual responsibility for the nuclear power plant they operate and accept their collective responsibility to assess, inform, help and emulate other nuclear operators