Day 18 of a 21-Day Outage.
$1.8M per day on the line.
The next NRC hold point is 48 hours out. Your outage manager is cross-referencing three whiteboards and a Maximo export to figure out which of 340 open work orders are on the critical path. POD replaces all of it.
The Cost of Inaction
Every hour without real-time outage visibility is a bet against the clock and the grid.
Replacement power purchase cost per extra day
When a reactor is offline, the utility buys replacement energy on the spot market. Every 24 hours of delay adds $1.8 million in purchased power costs that come straight off the bottom line.
Cost of one-week outage extension
A seven-day overrun is not a rounding error. It wipes out an entire quarter of maintenance savings and triggers NRC scrutiny on outage performance trending.
Open work orders with no clear prioritization
The outage manager is juggling 340 active work packages across reactor, turbine, and BOP systems. Without real-time priority ranking, the critical path hides in a sea of open tasks.
Petition risk from documentation gaps
Missing documentation on safety-significant work creates a regulatory trail that can trigger an NRC 2.206 petition, adding months of review and potential enforcement action to the outage aftermath.
The Return on POD
Outage managers who see the critical path in real time finish on time.
Real-time work order completion tracking by system and priority
POD ingests every work order from your CMMS and maps it to system, outage phase, and critical path status. Field crews report completions via 5-minute voice reports. The dashboard burns down open work in real time.
100% NRC hold point documentation compliance
Every hold point gets a countdown timer, prerequisite checklist, and sign-off tracker. POD alerts the responsible engineer when documentation is incomplete 48 hours before the hold — not 48 hours after.
3-day average outage reduction for POD customers
By surfacing critical path bottlenecks before they cascade, POD customers consistently shave 2-4 days off planned outage windows. At $1.8M per day, even two days recovered pays for five years of POD.
$5.4M savings from preventing 3-day extension
Three fewer outage days multiplied by $1.8M in daily replacement power costs equals $5.4M in direct savings per outage. No capital investment, no headcount increase — just better information flow.
Reactor Outage Timeline
Five phases. 680 work orders. Every NRC hold point tracked to the hour.
Outage KPIs — Live From Day 18
340 work orders open, NRC hold point in 48 hours. These are the dashboards your outage director needs right now.
Compliance Countdown
Schedule Burndown
Outage Intelligence Suite
Work Order Priority Engine
Automatically ranks every open work package by critical path impact, resource dependency, and NRC significance. When three work orders compete for the same crew, POD tells the outage manager which one to prioritize.
NRC Hold Point Tracker
Countdown timers on every regulatory hold with prerequisite status, responsible engineer assignment, and documentation completeness percentage. Alerts fire 72, 48, and 24 hours before each hold.
Outage Extension Cost Calculator
Maps every critical path delay to its dollar impact using replacement power rates, overtime labor costs, and contract penalty clauses. The outage director sees the financial consequence of every decision in real time.
“We overran by four days on the 2024 refueling outage because nobody could tell the outage director which work packages were gating the fuel load. That was $7.2 million in replacement power we will never get back. If we had a live burn-down tied to our CMMS, the critical path would have been obvious on Day 12 instead of Day 19.”
— Outage Manager, Commercial Nuclear Station (2-unit PWR)
Frequently Asked Questions
Finish Every Outage on Time
See how POD tracks every work order, NRC hold point, and critical path item in real time — before $1.8M-per-day extension costs start piling up.