Use of Reliability-Centered Maintenance for the McGuire nuclear station feedwater system. Final report

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5156806

Crellin, G L; Matteson, T D; Smith, A M

An earlier prototype application of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to the Component Cooling Water System at Florida Power and Light's Turkey Point Plant demonstrated that the RCM methodology is applicable for developing or revising Preventive Maintenance (PM) programs in operating nuclear power plants. This report discusses an additional RCM application made to the Main Feed Water System at Duke Power Company's McGuire Nuclear Station. The study was conducted in order to demonstrate more fully all aspects of the RCM approach. The report reviews the RCM methodology and details its application to the Main Feed Water System. The resulting RCM-based PM program is briefly compared to the current PM program for the system. The RCM process suggested four current PM tasks as candidates for Condition Directed (CD) consideration or revision and two current CD tasks as candidates for expanded scope. The RCM-based program also added nine new CD tasks as candidates to improve the effectiveness of the PM program and two new Failure Finding tasks as candidates to avoid startup delays. The report also discusses the lessons learned through the two studies. The study shows the RCM methodology to be an effective tool both for defining a PM program and for providing traceable documentation to enhance the credibility of the PM program.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc., NM (USA); Saratoga Engineering Consultants, Inc., San Jose, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5156806
• Report Number(s): EPRI-NP-4795; ON: TI87920052
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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