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Nuclear Professionals Define Quality ~ May 2025
2025, May 06 | Paul W. Gladieux, CEO | CQO | Founder, GQM Nuclear Advisors ~ Since 1991
Who Defines Nuclear Quality in Your Organization? Why is it Critical to Have a Clear & Consistent Definition of Quality in the Nuclear Energy Industry? High-Risk & High-Consequence Safety-Related Products & Services Must be Designed, Produced, & Supplied in the Best Form & Function as Possible. Engineers & Designers are ‘The Specifiers’ of Quality-Level Requirements & Performance Expectations for Safety-Related Products & Services for Protecting Life, Safety, Health, Security, & Environments. Image Being in a Plane at 40K Feet NOT DESIGNED for the Highest Quality & Safety? ~ Specifying Engineers Define Nuclear Quality in the U.S. Industry ~Nuclear Professionals ~ ISO 19443 NQMS – ITNS ~ April 2025
2025, April 28 | Paul W. Gladieux, CEO | CQO | Founder, GQM Nuclear Advisors ~ Since 1991
Don’t Let ‘Show Stoppers’ Disrupt Your Reactor & Site Design | Build | Startup Plans & Upset Your Investors! Please ~ Do Not Ignore Global ISO / IAEA Requirements Documents for ‘The Management of Nuclear Quality.’ ISO 19443 International Standard for 'Important to Nuclear Safey' (ITNS) is likely required for Products & Services in the EU & Other Nations. 1st Fleet Nuclear Quality Management Professionals Know How to ‘Prevent Your Show from Stopping.’Nuclear Information Management ~ Ensuring NPP Safety ~ April 2025
2025, April 12 | Paul W. Gladieux, CEO | CQO | Founder, GQM Nuclear Advisors ~ Since 1991
- Can Your Nuclear Information Management System ID Safety-Related Documents, Data, Records?
- Do You Understand The NIM Concept, Processes, Procedures, & Requirements?
- Is NIM In Your NEO Training Portfolio?
- Is Proficiency Maintenance Training Provided?
Is Nuclear Scary – Yes or No? ~ March 2025
2025, March 24 | Paul W. Gladieux, CEO | CQO | Founder, GQM Nuclear Advisors ~ Since 1991
The U.S. Nuclear Energy segment typically uses natural draft conical-shaped Cool Tower images to represent nuclear energy. The public's reaction likely is fear, especially when condensate steam leaves the top opening some 400 ft. above grade. It's most likely the uninformed public thinks that inert tower is the Power Reactor. The industry should not confuse the public, especially when the industry needs high levels of backing by the public. Executives, Nuclear Engineers, and Marketing need to project the proper images (not cooling towers) to ensure the public of the designed safety, environmental, and management system controls in nuclear power plants. Nuclear isn't scary once you understand the inherent safeguards.U.S. Nuclear Renaissance ~ ‘Show Stoppers’ ~ April 2025
2025, April 09 | Paul W. Gladieux, CEO | CQO | Founder, GQM Nuclear Advisors ~ Since 1991
- Don’t Let ‘Show Stoppers’ Disrupt Your Reactor & Site Design | Build | Startup Plans & Upset Your Investors!
- Please ~ Do Not Ignore the NRC Cornerstone Regulations for ‘The Management of Nuclear Quality’
- 1st Fleet Nuclear Quality Management Professionals Know How to ‘Prevent Your Show from Stopping’
Nuclear ~ Commercial Grade & ASME Surveys – Response to Query for Frequency & Qualifications ~ White Paper by Sham Beri ~ April 2025
2025, April 10 | Sham Beri, President, Beri Associates ~ GQM Nuclear Advisors Since 1991
Client Request ~ 1. Qualification for those performing commercial grade survey – help us understand where ASME NQA-1 is specifying the requirements for those performing a commercial grade survey. Note Added question about the potential use of Technical Specialists to lead the surveys and frequency of the surveys. 2. ASME Section III survey versus a commercial grade survey – help us to understand the specific differences between these two activities.Nuclear Energy Professionals ~ 5 Minute Lessons Learned, Report to U.S. Congress 1984, Improving Quality for NPP Design & Construction ~ 2025
2025, March 29 | Paul W. Gladieux, CEO | CQO | Founder, Global Quality Management Advisors Since 1991
1st generation professionals ('70s-'90s) engaged in the design/build era really understand how the 'nuclear energy culture' emerged over that 20-year period. It's critical for our next generations to understand the history. The U.S. NRC continues to point suppliers to the NUREG to learn from the 1984 Report to Congress, 'U.S. NRC NUREG-1055' as investors/developers plan NPP deployments. 'Improving Quality and the Assurance of Quality in the Design and Construction of Nuclear Power Plants: A Report to Congress' https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1055/index.html
Timeline 1900 ~ 2020 Quality’s Pathway to Leadership ~ QC | QA | QM | QL & The CQO ~ June 2024
2024, June 10 | Paul W. Gladieux CEO | CQO | Founder, Global Quality Management Advisors Since 1991
'The Management of Quality' in the U.S. has a definitive path encompassing four phases beginning in 1900 as the Industrial Revolution & mass production emerged. From 'Self-Inspection' to Quality Leadership, the number of events, requirements documents, & thought leaders formed the basis for the Quality Management Profession & Quality Management System thinking, design, development, & implementations. The four disciplines QC, QA, QM, QL & now the obvious need for a CQO Executive in the C-Suite provide the opportunity to enhance operational effectiveness & excellence. The CFO & CQO are critical partners in reducing the 'Cost of Poor Quality.'Timeline 1960 ~ 2025, U.S. Commercial Nuclear ~ Quality Management ~ April 2025
2025, April 09 | Paul W. Gladieux Founder | CEO, Global Quality Management Advisors Since 1991
Events in Time that shaped the U.S. Nuclear Energy segment between 1960 ~ 2025. The 1984 U.S. NRC NUREG-1055 Report to Congress is still the most valuable Lessons Learned publication to improve Design | Build efforts today. The U.S. NRC wants Industry Executives / Leaders to leverage from the Report. GQM Advisors new Nuclear Management Systems course provides a look at the past with recommendations for future 'Problem Prevention Planning' measures.Global Nuclear Energy ~ The Race 2017
2017, December 23 | GQM Advisors, Paul W. Gladieux
Research | Commitment | Strategy | Investors | Owners | Designers | Builders | Operators | Suppliers - SAFETY - QUALITY - COMPLIANCEU.S. Nuclear Power Industry, “The Renaissance – Back to the Future” PowerPoint ~ 2009
2009 September | Presentation ASQ Portland, OR, GQMassciates, Paul W. Gladieux, Founder | CEO
Power Point look ahead for the U.S. Nuclear Energy Segment.Report to U.S. Congress U.S. NRC NUREG-1055, ‘Improving Quality & the Assurance of Quality in the Design & Construction of NPPs’ ~ 1984
1984 May | W. Altman, T. Ankrum, W. Brach, US NRC Div. QA, Safeguards, & Inspection Programs (Office of Inspection & Enforcement)
At the request of Congress, U.S. NRC conducted a study of existing & alternative programs for improving quality & the assurance of quality in the design & construction of commercial nuclear power plants. A primary focus of the study was to determine the underlying causes of major quality-related problems in the construction of some nuclear power plants & the untimely detection & correction of these problems. NOTE: Link to PDF available on U.S. NRC website (29.9 MB)