DISCUSSION

At the meeting of the WANO Governing Board on July 2, 2002, the WANO governors established the “WANO Nuclear Excellence Award” for individuals.  The intent is that individuals at any level in an organization be eligible for the award.

The Governing Board established the WANO Nuclear Excellence Award “In honour of Dr. Zack T. Pate and in recognition of his leadership in promoting excellence in the worldwide nuclear industry.”

The following procedure is based on the approach approved by the Governing Board.  It provides details on the nomination and selection of award recipients, and the presentation of the award.

ELIGIBILITY

·         Any individual whose work contributes to or supports the successful operation of nuclear power plants operated by any WANO member(s) is eligible for the award.  This could include contributions to any part of the infrastructure that supports the nuclear power enterprise.  It could also include contributions through WANO.

·         Past WANO chairmen and presidents are not eligible for the award.

·         Past WANO directors are not eligible for the award during the first two years following the completion of their role as a WANO director. After that time, they are eligible for consideration based on their ongoing contributions to the successful operation of nuclear power plants operated by WANO members.

·         Currently serving WANO governing board members and the currently serving president are not eligible.

·         Currently serving regional governing board members are eligible.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

·         The individual(s) selected to receive the award will be widely recognized by their peers and colleagues as having made exceptional or extraordinary contributions to excellence in the operation of nuclear power plants, or to the infrastructure that supports the nuclear power enterprise, or through WANO.

·         Contributions of the individuals will be considered within the scope of an individual’s authority and/or his position in an organization.  This will open the selection process to individuals in all levels of an organization.

PROCEDURE

Nomination of Candidates

·         Completing a confidential nomination form and mailing it to the WANO secretary at the WANO Coordinating Centre in London will start the nomination process.  Any individual may nominate a candidate providing the candidate is not an immediate relative.

·         At least three (but no more than four) confidential reference forms completed by individuals other than the nominating individual must be submitted by mail for each nominated candidate. The nominating individual will be responsible for arranging for the submittal of the reference forms to the WANO secretary.  Individuals with varying backgrounds and positions should be asked to provide references so that the award selection committee will have supporting information on the candidate from a broad cross-section of sources. 

·         The WANO secretary will receive all nomination and reference information, screen the information for completeness, make confidential inquiries to confirm the authenticity of all submitted information, and provide individual nominee packages to the award selection committee for all properly nominated candidates.

·         All information provided, including the names of nominees, will be treated in the strictest confidence.

·         The WANO secretary will establish a cutoff date for receipt of all information required to support consideration of a candidate.  This date will be at least three months before the next Biennial General Meeting (BGM).

·         A nominating package can be requested from the WANO Coordinating Centre:

      WANO Coordinating Centre
Attention: WANO Secretary
Cavendish Court
11-15 Wigmore Street
London, W1U 1PF
UK

·         Nominating instructions and forms are also available on the WANO Public Web site (http://www.wano.info/).  Nominating individuals are reminded that the nominating instructions must be meticulously followed to ensure timely and full consideration is given to nominees.

Selection of Award Recipients

·         The WANO Governing Board has established an independent award selection committee, with at least one representative from each region. Selection committee members are not eligible for the award.

·         The award selection committee will review the nomination form and supporting reference information for each properly nominated candidate.  Review and selection procedures will be solely at the discretion of the committee.  The committee will then recommend award recipients to the WANO Governing Board. Recommendations for up to eight recipients may be made for each BGM. The committee should ensure fair representation among all four regions, but should not feel pressure to evenly divide the recipients among the regions for every BGM since the regions are of different sizes.

·         The WANO Governing Board, meeting in executive session, will approve or not approve candidates recommended by the award selection committee (but may not add or substitute candidates).  Approval of individual candidates requires agreement of at least five WANO governors.  The names of the approved award recipients will be noted in a separate memorandum signed by the WANO chairman and retained by the WANO secretary. No copies of the memorandum will be made.  Award selection committee members will be notified privately of the result.

NOTE:  The proceedings of the selection committee and the WANO Governing Board with regard to selection of recipients must remain confidential and any requests for additional information should be referred to the Chairman or the WANO Secretary.

·         The WANO managing director will arrange for notifications to award recipients and the appropriate managers in the recipients’ organizations, and will coordinate arrangements for attendance of the recipients at the BGM.

·         The WANO Secretary will notify nominators of those individuals not selected to receive awards. The notification will only note that the individual was not selected to receive an award to ensure the nominator is aware that the individual will not be asked to attend the Biennial General Meeting to receive an award.

Presentation of the Award

·         The WANO Chairman and/or the WANO President and/or someone designated by the WANO chairman will present the award(s) at WANO Biennial General Meetings (BGM). 

·         The actual award will be accompanied by a resolution approved by the WANO Governing Board providing a summary of the contributions made by the recipient in support of excellence in the operation of nuclear power plants.