About the Nuclear Commissioning Excellence Forum
The Nuclear Commissioning Excellence Forum (NCEF) is a group of individuals and companies who are interested in developing best practice in Commissioning for Nuclear projects in the UK. The forum includes most of the companies holding a UK nuclear site licence and is expanding to include many companies from the supply chain who support nuclear commissioning. It was set up after recognising that, as with many technical areas, the UK needed to strengthen its understanding of how to commission nuclear projects as well as develop the next generation of commissioning engineers & managers.
Creating the Benchmark for Nuclear Commissioning
Nuclear commissioning has much in common with commissioning in the process industries but has an additional level of rigour required. It is subject to the common problems of time and cost, as well as the more distinct challenges concerning handover/turnover, configuration management, the alignment of culture and expectations between client and contractor, and the UK context. The intention of the NCEF is to address these problems as well as improve the current commissioning capabilities of the member companies. We believe this can be achieved through improving the expertise of our current personnel, sharing lessons learned and increasing the number of engineers moving into commissioning roles.
