Understanding and Mitigating Ageing in Nuclear Power Plants
：Materials and Operational Aspects of Plant Life Management (PLIM)
( Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy )
Publication subTitle ：Materials and Operational Aspects of Plant Life Management (PLIM)
Publication series ：Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9781845699956
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781845695118
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781845695118
Subject： TL Nuclear Technology
Language： ENG
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Description
Plant life management (PLiM) is a methodology focussed on the safety-first management of nuclear power plants over their entire lifetime. It incorporates and builds upon the usual periodic safety reviews and licence renewals as part of an overall framework designed to assist plant operators and regulators in assessing the operating conditions of a nuclear power plant, and establishing the technical and economic requirements for safe, long-term operation.
Understanding and mitigating ageing in nuclear power plants critically reviews the fundamental ageing-degradation mechanisms of materials used in nuclear power plant structures, systems and components (SSC), along with their relevant analysis and mitigation paths, as well as reactor-type specific PLiM practices. Obsolescence and other less obvious ageing-related aspects in nuclear power plant operation are also examined in depth.
Part one introduces the reader to the role of nuclear power in the global energy mix, and the importance and relevance of plant life management for the safety regulation and economics of nuclear power plants. Key ageing degradation mechanisms and their effects in nuclear power plant systems, structures and components are reviewed in part two, along with routes taken to characterise and analyse the ageing of materials and to mitigate or eliminate ageing degradation effects. Part three reviews analysis, monitoring and modelling techniques applicable to the study of nuclear power plant mat
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