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Exercise Builder Nuclear

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Exercise Builder Nuclear™ is an online platform used by emergency preparedness managers in the nuclear power industry to manage the many drills and exercises required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to prepare plants to meet any type of threat. The once web-only platform is now available as a mobile app to even better meet the needs of our customers.

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Advantages of using Exercise Builder Nuclear

Watch a short video (1:31) introducing some of the advantages of using Exercise Builder Nuclear. If you have trouble viewing the video on this page, you can also watch it on Vimeo: Exercise Builder Nuclear video.

Seven benefits of Exercise Builder Nuclear

  1. Improve consistency and standardization of approach
  2. Build drills and exercises quickly from a repository of data
  3. Web-based access allows collaboration with peers and distribution of duties
  4. Access drill and exercise data from any computer that has an internet connection
  5. Generate documents such as controller guidelines and drill reports in seconds
  6. Record evaluations of objectives to track performance improvement
  7. Track data over time, such as EAL usage or individual employee participation
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How does Exercise Builder Nuclear work?

Exercise Builder Nuclear offers a number of key advantages to build and manage drills and exercises efficiently.

Build a library of various types of reusable data

Add all objectives for all facilities with two to three mouse clicks

Create missions and messages in your preferred format, easily adjustable to the current exercise

If you change the order of timeline events by updating the time values, Exercise Builder Nuclear will automatically re-number your messages.

Automatically manage and track changes

Exercise Builder Nuclear is a web-based system, accessible anytime from any location with an internet connection. Therefore, multiple people can work on an exercise.

Collaborate with other exercise participants

Images, maps, diagrams, etc., can be embedded in any mission or message, and then will print with them. No more trying to manage auxiliary files from multiple sources.

Tell a story with pictures

Exercise Builder Nuclear will output all the data associated with a drill or exercise to a Word document. Just select which sections of data you want in the document, and the order you want them.

Capture and output exercise/drill data

  • Find out if a staff member is properly participating in exercises. 
  • List the number of times an objective has been used in a given period. 
  • Determine which EALs need your attention as the eight-year cycle nears an end.
  • And more… we are open to ideas.

ORAU security and information technology

ORAU follows a risk-based approach to information security. This currently includes implementation of the framework described in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 and implementation of appropriate Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management practices. As standards and technologies evolve, ORAU continuously improves its compliance to meet client expectations.

ORAU provides appropriate physical and cyber security, adequate data back-up and recovery, appropriate equipment redundancy, and appropriate monitoring and contingency plans.

How Exercise Builder Nuclear helps emergency directors better prepare for possible nuclear disasters

ORAU’s Exercise Builder Nuclear (EBN) application is designed to facilitate nuclear emergency preparedness exercises from start to finish. Launched in 2013, EBN is used by 42 of the 55 operating nuclear power plants in the U.S.

Read the blog post

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Contact us

For more information or to schedule a free demo, please contact Don Hanlon at (865) 466-5575 or don.hanlon@orau.org.