Feedback from a collective outage improvement initiative at an EDF nuclear power plant

The author reports various efforts made by EDF to improve nuclear safety during shutdowns or outages of its nuclear power plants. One of the initiatives was the creation of the 'activities coordinator' job category for the coordination and the overseeing of all maintenance activities. The coordination is based on a quality plan, the content of which being briefly indicated. The author presents the organisation implemented for the unit outage. He reports and comments group training activities and experience feedback, illustrates and comments the performance improvements in terms of technical issues as well as nuclear safety