Can corrosion and CRUD actually improve safety margins in LWRs?

Can We Improve Patient Safety?

Despite greater awareness of patient safety issues especially in the operating room and the widespread implementation of surgical time out World Health Organization (WHO), errors, especially wrong site surgery, continue. Most such errors are due to lapses in communication where decision makers fail to consult or confirm operative findings but worryingly where parental concerns over the planned ...

Assessment of NDE technologies for detection and characterization of stress corrosion cracking in LWRs

Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in light water reactors (LWRs) has been a persistent form of degradation in the nuclear industry. Examples of SCC can be found for a range of materials in boiling and pressurized water reactor environments, including carbon steels, stainless steels, and nickel-base alloys. The evolution of SCC is often characterized by a long initiation stage followed by a phase ...

Patient safety organizations can help providers improve performance and results.

Margins of safety in FPSO hull strength

Recent studies were carried out to determine the variation in safety factors (between the applied loading and the capacity) of FPSOs currently operating in the UK Sector of the Central North Sea, and designed using either a class rule type approach or a more advanced hydrodynamic – FE type approach. Results from these studies seem to indicate that the safety factor in both cases is similar, sin...

Task Group on Safety Margins Action Plan (SMAP), Safety Margins Action Plan - Final Report

The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisati...