The purpose of the Materials Aging and Degradation Pathway is to develop the scientific basis for understanding and predicting long-term environmental degradation behavior of materials in nuclear power plants and to provide data and methods to assess the performance of systems, structures, and components essential to safe and sustained nuclear power plant operations. The understanding of aging-related phenomena and their impacts on systems, structures, and components is expected to be a significant issue for any nuclear power plant planning for long-term operations (i.e., service beyond the initial license renewal period). Management of those phenomena and their impacts during long-term operations can be better enabled by improved methods and techniques for detection, monitoring, and prediction of systems, structures, and components degradation.
Revised: December 13, 2013 |
Published: April 16, 2013
Citation
Clayton D.A., S. Bakhtiari, C.M. Smith, K.L. Simmons, P. Ramuhalli, J.B. Coble, and D.L. Brenchley, et al. 2013.Research and Development Roadmaps for Nondestructive Evaluation of Cables, Concrete, Reactor Pressure Vessels, and Piping Fatigue. In Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security, March 10, 2013, San Diego, California. Proceedings of the SPIE, edited by TY Yu, et al, 8694, Paper No. 869426. Bellingham, Washington:Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.PNNL-SA-93524.doi:10.1117/12.2010061