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Planning & Estimating Tools POWERtool is a comprehensive relational database software tool that can be used to plan work tasks, develop bottom-up field cost and waste estimates for surveillance & maintenance, deactivation, decontamination and disassembly of contaminated facilities and equipment, and produce initial resource loaded schedules. POWERtool was developed under the DOE EM-20 National Facility Deactivation Initiative (NFDI) program (http://www.em.doe.gov/deact/). The tool can be used in the field on a handheld miniature Pentium PC for planning, estimating, and photo-documentation, and on a networked or stand-alone desktop PC for data management and reporting. Facility/system/equipment information is entered in the office as part of the program setup. The project field staff and engineers then use a field estimating screen with pull-down menus to navigate among the hardware Subsets and work Subtasks to enter estimates. The use of library data containing unit estimates for each subtask allows the estimator to estimate in units, with the software accounting for the details of manpower, labor costs, waste volume, waste type and container type per unit. See POWERtool presentation. The POWERtool software has been developed in the Microsoft Access relational database environment. This allows the flexibility and power of a relational database for data management, screen features, and data processing and reporting. The software is also capable of exporting the records on equipment subsets, including schedule days, manpower loading and waste generation loading to a critical-path scheduling program for detailed project scheduling. Several standard reports have been developed, and custom reports can be added as necessary. Polestar is a recognized leader in planning, estimating, and execution of significant deactivation and decommissioning projects across the DOE complex. The POWERtool applications has been used successfully on projects including Deactivation of Hanford’s B Plant, PUREX, Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), and Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) facilities, Savannah River Site’s (SRS) F Canyon and FB Line facility, Rocky Flat’s Buildings 771, 707, 776/777, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s High Flux Beam Reactor, Oak Ridge Y-12’s Building 9206, and the Nevada Test Site’s (NTS) RMAD, Test Cells A an C, Super Kukla and Pluto facilities.
 S&M POWERtool Polestar assists clients in identification of surveillance and maintenance requirements for a facility that is entering or is in a post-operational, safe shutdown, or deactivated state to assure the minimum requirements for safe stewardship are maintained. Polestar recently developed surveillance and maintenance cost estimating tool, S&M POWERtool (linked to PowerPoint Presentation) designed using the POWERtool structure to prepare requirements based cost estimates for facilities. Polestar assists our clients in implementation and utilization of the estimating tool and provides training to our clients to be self sufficient users of the tool. In addition, Polestar also conducts requirements based assessments intended to optimize surveillance and maintenance activities of a facility on the project allowing identified savings of resources (money and personnel) to be utilized to further accelerate the deactivation and decommissioning project.
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