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This paper highlights plant processes and systems where these programs are leveraged, driving corrosion and integrity concerns, inspection and monitoring plans, trending and forecasting tools, and long-term asset integrity investment considerations.
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At a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the security, training, and safety requirements are quite complex when compared to industrial or commercial facilities. Security requirements start with the completion of an extensive personnel qualification and employment history questionnaire followed by background screening, and security program training. Safety in a NPP includes nuclear safety in addition to the typical industrial safety training.
Contract coatings work in the Commercial Nuclear Industry is quite different than coatings work in other industries. The physical coatings work performed at a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is no different than physical coatings work at any other facility. However, the regulatory, administrative, quality and qualification requirements can be substantially different.
Since the selection and application of safety-related coatings in commercial US nuclear power plants began in the early 1950's, many changes have occurred in coatings technology, industry understanding of the performance of coatings in the nuclear plant environment, and regulatory oversight of these coatings.
Nuclear power provides a heat source for steam-electric generation that does not pollute the atmosphere. Heat is produced in a nuclear reactor by the neutron radiation emitted by the SteadyState fusion of enriched or natural uranium. The nuclear renaissance that is emerging in the United States will be based on new power plant designs from a variety of U.S. and international sources.
The nuclear renaissance that is emerging in the United States will be based on new power plant designs from a variety of US and international sources. While the new plant designs will be based on the time tested and proven concepts of both the boiling water reactor (BWR) and the pressurized water reactor (PWR), the emphasis of the new plants will be on engineering designs that incorporate increased levels of redundancy in safety systems, and post-LOCA passive systems to move fluids about the reactor containment, thereby providing for long-term core cooling and decay heat removal, The new plant designs will include a strong emphasis on modular, off-site construction where more protective coatings will be applied in the fabrication shop.
The intent of the nuclear supplement to the relevant SSPC QP contractor certification programs is to certify contractors and paint shops to perform work in and for nuclear facilities that require an enhanced level of quality assurance / quality control requirements and nuclear safety culture awareness for surface preparation and painting activities. SSPC will expand the current QP certification to include the assessment of capabilities of SSPC certified firms to provide coating services to the nuclear power industry based on ANSI and ASTM standards as well as NRC guidelines.
This paper will briefly discuss the U.S. nuclear buried pipe integrity program, the infrastructure created for information sharing, and the data mining results related to the threat of external corrosion from more than 4,500 inspections on buried pipe at more than 60 power generation sites.
After a loss of coolant accident a nuclear reactor needs to be flooded, quenching the fuel rods, which would suffer a thermal shock. Six commercial alloys of nuclear interest were tested for resistance to quenching measures after exposure to air at 1200°C for 2 hours.