Material issues can be the limiting factor for the operation of nuclear power plants. There is growing interest in new and improved philosophies and methodolgies for plant life management, which include the migration from reliance on periodic inservice inspection to include condition-based maintenance. A further step in the development of plant management is the move from proactive responses based on ISI to become proactive, through the investigation of the potential for implementation of a proactive management of materials degradation program and its potential impact on the managements of LWRs
Revised: March 25, 2010 |
Published: May 12, 2009
Citation
Bond L.J., S.R. Doctor, S.E. Cumblidge, S.M. Bruemmer, W. Taylor, A. Hull, and S. Malik. 2009.LWR Aging Management Using a Proactive Approach to Control Materials Degradation. In International Congress on the Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '09), May 10-14, 2009, Tokyo, Japan. La Grange Park, Illinois:American Nuclear Society.PNNL-SA-64363.