Indicators for Management of Planned Outages in Nuclear Power Plants
Indicators for Management of Planned Outages in Nuclear Power Plants

Author: International Atomic Energy Agency

Publisher: IAEA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Planned outages are a main contributor to nuclear power plant (NPP) unavailability, risk and cost. Effective management of planned outages is a key factor for improvement of NPP safety, availability and competitiveness. To support outage management an outage monitoring system is implemented that follows all the fundamental and critical activities and deadlines in each phase of the outage. The IAEA has produced this publication on indicators for planned outage monitoring as a complement to a series of technical publications related to practices regarding outage management and cost effective maintenance. The aim of this publication is to provide guidelines for outage monitoring systems, examples of specific outage indicators and good practices in outage monitoring. This publication outlines a set of outage indicators that could be considered by operators of NPPs when establishing or revising their own specific outage indicator systems.

Nuclear Power Plant Outage Optimization Strategy
Nuclear Power Plant Outage Optimization Strategy

Author: International Atomic Energy Agency

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789201078162

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Nuclear power plant outage management is a key factor for safe and economic nuclear power plant performance. This publication discusses plant outage strategy and how this strategy is actually implemented. The main areas that are important for outage optimization that were identified by the utilities and government organizations participating in this report are: 1) organization and management; 2) outage planning and preparation; 3) outage execution; 4) safety outage review; and 5) counter measures to avoid the extension of outages and to facilitate the work in forced outages. Good outage management practices cover many different areas of work and this publication aims to communicate these good practices in a way that they can be used effectively by operators and utilities.

Management Strategies for Nuclear Power Plant Outages
Management Strategies for Nuclear Power Plant Outages

Author: International Atomic Energy Agency

Publisher: IAEA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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The aim of this report is to identify good practices in outage management: outage planning and preparation, outage execution and post-outage review. The report aims to communicate these practices in a way that can be used by operating organizations and regulatory bodies in Member States.

Indicators for Nuclear Power Development
Indicators for Nuclear Power Development

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 9789201151193

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"Considering the scale of nuclear power aspirations, the number of planned nuclear new builds and the prospects of a number of countries constructing their first nuclear power plants, there is a need to assess the broader context of nuclear energy programmes in areas of macro-and socioeconomic conditions, energy systems and nuclear power, and the environment. It is important to assess the degree to which introduction or expansion of nuclear power is beneficial under these specific circumstances. This publication provides a set of indicators for nuclear power development that can serve as a tool to help explore these issues. The indicators are meant to provide a first order assessment of the situation and identify the issues that present the benefits and challenges in a balanced and objective manner and thereby help guide more detailed evaluations in the next stage of planning and preparations. Methodology sheets are provided to help users in data collection, quantification and interpretation of the indicators. The application of the indicators set is flexible. Users can select a subset of indicators that are most relevant for the questions they wish to explore in a given study or decision making process."--Publisher's description.

Asset Management for Sustainable Nuclear Power Plant Operation
Asset Management for Sustainable Nuclear Power Plant Operation

Author: IAEA

Publisher: International Atomic Energy Agency

Published: 2021-03-10

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 920126920X

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Asset management plays an important role in maintaining the competitiveness of nuclear power plants in a challenging and changing electricity market. The value of effective asset management is in providing support to those making decisions seeking the optimum level of financial performance, operational performance and risk exposure. This publication provides information on various methodologies, good practices and approaches to manage assets in nuclear power plants currently in operation or in other operational nuclear facilities. Information relevant to new build and decommissioning environments is also provided.

Resilience Engineering in Practice
Resilience Engineering in Practice

Author: Professor Erik Hollnagel

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1472420748

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Resilience engineering depends on four abilities: the ability a) to respond to what happens, b) to monitor critical developments, c) to anticipate future threats and opportunities, and d) to learn from past experience - successes as well as failures. They

Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System
Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0309463076

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Americans' safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex "cyber-physical" system composed of a network of millions of components spread out across the continent. These components are owned, operated, and regulated by thousands of different entities. Power system operators work hard to assure safe and reliable service, but large outages occasionally happen. Given the nature of the system, there is simply no way that outages can be completely avoided, no matter how much time and money is devoted to such an effort. The system's reliability and resilience can be improved but never made perfect. Thus, system owners, operators, and regulators must prioritize their investments based on potential benefits. Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System focuses on identifying, developing, and implementing strategies to increase the power system's resilience in the face of events that can cause large-area, long-duration outages: blackouts that extend over multiple service areas and last several days or longer. Resilience is not just about lessening the likelihood that these outages will occur. It is also about limiting the scope and impact of outages when they do occur, restoring power rapidly afterwards, and learning from these experiences to better deal with events in the future.

The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power

Author: Reinhard Haas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-26

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 3658259876

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This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still a heavily disputed issue. Aside from technical risks, safety issues, and the unsolved problem of nuclear waste disposal, the economic performance is currently a major barrier. In recent years, the costs have skyrocketed especially in the European countries and North America. At the same time, the costs of alternatives such as photovoltaics and wind power have significantly decreased.