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Uchida, Shunsuke; Chimi, Yasuhiro; Kasahara, Shigeki; Hanawa, Satoshi; Okada, Hidetoshi*; Naito, Masanori*; Kojima, Masayoshi*; Kikura, Hiroshige*; Lister, D. H.*
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 341, p.112 - 123, 2019/01
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：49.60(Nuclear Science & Technology)Improvement of plant reliability based on reliability-centered-maintenance (RCM) is going to be undertaken in NPPs. RCM is supported by risk-based maintenance (RBM). The combination of prediction and inspection is one of the key issues to promote RBM. Early prediction of IGSCC occurrence and its propagation should be confirmed throughout the entire plant systems which should be accomplished by inspections at the target locations followed by timely application of suitable countermeasures. From the inspections, accumulated data will be applied to confirm the accuracy of the code, to tune some uncertainties of the key data for prediction, and then, to increase their accuracy. The synergetic effects of prediction and inspection on application of effective and suitable countermeasures are expected. In the paper, the procedures for the combination of prediction and inspection are introduced.
Asayama, Tai; Takaya, Shigeru
Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-24) (DVD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2016/06
This paper describes the current status and path forward of the ongoing activities in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers to implement reliability evaluation methodologies into the fast reactor codes and standards. The activities are going on on two aspects; design and inservice inspection. For design, methodologies are being developed to implement a reliability-based method for the evaluation of buckling of vessels using the Load and Resistance Factor Design method. With regards inservice inspection, in order to establish a methodology that takes account of the reliability of components when setting inspection requirements, evaluations are being performed on major passive components of fast reactors. To support the process, guidelines for reliability evaluation are being developed. One of the most important remaining issues is establishing a framework on which target reliabilities could be determined by the consensus of stakeholders.
