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Maintain HCUs on-line, shorten refueling outages

Journal Article · · Power (New York)
OSTI ID:418010

This article examines how removing maintenance of hydraulic control units from the outage scope lets the outage focus available resources on critical-path items, saving significant time and money and enhancing capacity factors. Because of their cost impact, refueling outages are a prime focus of efforts to improve the competitive operation of nuclear powerplants. An approach drawing wide interest is reducing the outage work scope by performing on-line key tasks normally consigned to refueling outages. applying this approach to maintenance of hydraulic control units (HCUs) on boiling-water reactors (BWRs) can be extremely fruitful.

OSTI ID:
418010
Journal Information:
Power (New York), Journal Name: Power (New York) Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 140; ISSN POWEAD; ISSN 0032-5929
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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