Governance · public design
Siderian is designed for independent operation. That independence is not yet an accomplished fact: its assurance governance is being formed and no independent assurance authority has been appointed.
Status
No independent assurance authority has been appointed.
Operating principle
No founder override of an assurance decision.
No vendor, EPC, buyer, or project sponsor may direct a qualification outcome.
Every decision identifies the evidence used, the evidence missing, the risk owner, and the expiry date.
Every conflict is disclosed before work begins and resolved through exclusion, mitigation, or recusal.
Commercial success cannot be a performance metric for an assurance decision-maker.
A final adverse decision must have an appeal path outside the original decision chain.
Control register
in formation
An authority structurally separate from commercial origination, with the power to condition, re-sequence, release, or stop a qualification.
Mandate and appointment criteria are being developed. No authority is appointed.
in formation
Discipline-specific reviewers validate the criteria, evidence basis, and limits of each technical judgment.
Capability requirements are defined at a role level; appointments are pending.
proposed
Disclose financial, political, vendor, buyer, supplier, and personal interests before an assignment; require recusal where impartiality can reasonably be questioned.
Public policy outline published; operating procedure and register remain to be adopted.
proposed
Keep business development, fees, and counterparty relationships outside assurance decisions and reviewer compensation.
Target operating model published; legal and committee implementation remain in formation.
proposed
Version every material claim, record its provenance and expiry, and preserve the rationale for each decision.
Data model defined; production record system is not yet operating.
proposed
Permit a counterparty to challenge process, evidence, or interpretation without asking the original decision-maker to judge their own ruling.
Two-stage appeal design published; independent appeal appointments are pending.
Scope
Siderian proposes to qualify demand, verify capacity evidence, govern readiness gates, sequence scarce industrial slots, and preserve a decision record.
Boundary
Siderian does not design, license, construct, finance, insure, own, or operate a nuclear power plant. It does not replace the NRC, another national regulator, the reactor vendor, the licensee, the EPC, the owner, or their legal duties.