Would a maintenance standard be useful to an operating nuclear power plant

It has been almost a decade since the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) was created. As a result of their efforts, the nuclear industry now has maintenance guidelines, maintenance training, and maintenance assistance teams. Although nuclear safety, plant availability, and production economics are obviously very much interwoven with plant maintenance, the current issues are really the following: (1) Can changes in a plant's maintenance program improve that plant's safety, availability, and economics (2) Would the adoption of a standardized plant maintenance program by all nuclear stations improve the average nuclear plant's safety, availability, and economics (3) Could a common maintenance program standard be developed that would be useful and effective for the safety, availability, and economics of all nuclear operating stations Since INPO has many maintenance experts and has evaluated all nuclear station maintenance programs, if they were to place the development of this maintenance standard at a high priority, the time elapsed would probably be much less than 5 yr and the implementation problems of the standard would be minimal. The big if on this issue is whether a nuclear industry maintenance standard would improve the average nuclear plant's safety, availability, and economics.