INTEGRATED DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

The Robots for Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear energy becomes a major energy source worldwide even though the debating environmental and safety dispute. In order to cope with the issues related to the nuclear power plant, the uncertain human factors need to be minimized by automating the inspection and maintenance work done by human workers. The demands of robotic system in nuclear industry have been growing to ensure the safety of ...

Systems Design for Nuclear Power Plants

New Generation Nuclear Power Plants

− The radioactivity measurement techniques being developed within the EMRP “MetroFission” Joint Research Project (JRP) [1], are aimed at performing on-site activity measurements, by the development of a portable Triple to Double Coincidence Ratio (TDCR) system along with associated digital electronics. The TDCR standardisation method for beta-emitting radionuclides (e.g. H and Pu) produces an e...

An Integrated Scheme for Anomaly Identification and Automatic Control of Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) are complex systems with many variables that require adjustment to achieve efficient and safe operation over the entire operational envelop. Performance, reliability and safety of NPPs depend upon validity and accuracy of sensor signals that measure plant conditions for information display, health monitoring and control. Validity of measurements are important because...

Analyzing Importance Measure Methodologies for Integrated Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Nuclear Power Plants

Importance Measures (IMs) are used to rank the risk contributing factors in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). In this paper, existing IM methodologies are analyzed in order to select the most suitable IM for an Integrated PRA (IPRA) of Nuclear Power Plants. In IPRA, the classical PRA of the plant is used, but specific areas of concern (e.g., fire, GSI-191, organizational factors, and seismic...