... measurement data. When applied to measurement data in an NPP, FDD methods can assess instrument performance without interrupting the normal system operation. 23 07 2010 26 07 2010 29 12 2011 29 12 2011 fault diagnosis instruments nuclear power stations power generation faults...

... to one of the equipments (or in our case, offsite power as well) that comprises the system. 13 07 2010 23 07 2010 19 05 2011 19 05 2011 heat recovery Markov processes nuclear power stations nuclear reactor steam generators Typical commercial nuclear power plant...

... on the WWER-440 weld and base metal of the Greifswald unit 1. Besides, it scrutinizes the influence of sample orientation and the causes of the existing scatter in the results. annealing dynamic testing fracture nuclear power stations steel welding 03 08 2009 20 08 2009 09 12...

... nuclear power stations safety sulphur 29 06 2010 02 07 2010 29 10 2010 29 10 2010 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... nuclear power stations rotors shafts steam turbines turbines vibrations 19 03 2010 29 03 2010 26 10 2010 26 10 2010 As an example of item ① above, the blade-shaft coupled torsional vibration problem encountered by nuclear power generation steam turbines is already...

..., the fuel centerline temperature does not exceed even the sheath-temperature design limit of 850 ° C . 18 01 2010 21 01 2010 25 10 2010 25 10 2010 boilers fuel nuclear power stations uranium SCWR uranium carbide uranium dicarbide thermalhydraulics AHFP...

... on the accurate prediction of embrittlement and the appropriate management of plant operation. ageing embrittlement failure analysis fission reactors fracture nuclear power stations steel surveillance 12 08 2009 11 11 2009 09 07 2010 09 07 2010 2010 American Society...

... 3 4 ). fault trees nuclear power stations power generation faults power generation reliability risk management 05 08 2009 20 08 2009 08 07 2010 08 07 2010 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) , 2004 , “ Introduction to Simplified Generation Risk...

... ) investigated regimes of the two phase heat transfer of alkali metals. They showed the possibility of direct transition from one phase convection to film boiling. boiling metastable liquid vaporization front theoretical model bubbles convection film boiling metastable states nuclear power...

.... 1 . heat exchangers nuclear power stations steam turbines thermal stress cracking 21 07 2009 09 10 2009 02 07 2010 02 07 2010 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... to a particular plant, and thus a posterior distribution of plan specific failure rate is derived. The two-stage Bayesian procedure is able to incorporate different levels of variability in a more consistent manner. 21 07 2009 28 07 2009 26 04 2010 26 04 2010 nuclear power stations...

... analyses of a printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE), helical-coil heat exchanger, and shell-and-tube heat exchanger. 03 12 2008 05 12 2008 01 12 2009 01 12 2009 gas cooled reactors heat exchangers nuclear power stations An intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) is one...

... refueling extended operation actinides fission reactor fuel fission reactors nuclear power stations 30 11 2008 07 12 2008 11 06 2009 2009 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... fission reactor fuel fusion reactor fuel hydrodynamic model (elementary particles) nuclear power stations Figure 4 shows equivalent anisotropy plotted against temperature. With two exceptions, all data plotted in Fig. 4 are for particles produced with a coating gas fraction in the range of 0.28...

... and investigate their departure from generic reference values. For this purpose, the nuclear industry collects and compiles pipe failure events in a database such as OPDE Project Database. failure analysis inspection nuclear power stations pipelines power generation reliability risk management...

... for desalination and district heating purposes. Brayton cycle compressors fission reactor cooling fission reactor design gas cooled reactors gas turbine power stations nuclear power stations 28 10 2008 04 12 2008 09 06 2009 2009 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... the real RPV conditions. annealing brittle fracture fission reactors fracture toughness Monte Carlo methods nuclear power stations pressure vessels welds 2009 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... and temperature parameters proposed. boilers cogeneration fission reactors hydrogen economy nuclear power stations power generation reliability 17 06 2008 23 06 2008 01 10 2008 The single-reheat configuration with one feedwater heater (see Fig. 5 and Table 6 ) employs...

... , pp. 70 – 85 . computational fluid dynamics heat exchangers nuclear power stations orifices (mechanical) power plants shafts turbines valves When designing a new power plant, one usually starts with a first order cycle analysis to determine the impact of process conditions...

.... cogeneration modelling nuclear power stations gas turbine power stations electric power generation 01 Oct 2000 01 Apr 2001 19 06 2002 Contributed by the Materials, Manufacturing, and Metallurgy Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME...