Nuclear industry embraces reliability-centered maintenance

Journal Article · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · Power Engineering; (United States)

OSTI ID:5883782

Worledge, D H ^[1]

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1. Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)

This article discusses a common sense approach to maintenance that increases the reliability of power plants at a reasonable cost. The topic of the article include the debut of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) in the airline industry, early utility experience is reviewed, the rational behind RCM, implementing RCM, cost and benefits of the program, outage rate falls, the EPRI RCM user's group, and cost trends of one-time RCM costs.

• OSTI ID: 5883782
• Journal Information: Power Engineering; (United States), Vol. 97:7; ISSN 0032-5961
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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MAINTENANCE
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COST
EPRI
OPERATION
OUTAGES
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
POWER PLANTS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
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