Innovative technology to reduce outage time

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5655525

Morey, D N; Esteve, T H; Rumancik, J A

A significant contributor to unavailability has been refueling outage time; therefore, utilities have expressed increasing interest in improving their outage performance. This paper discusses the initiatives at the Farley Nuclear Plant to reduce outage time and in particular a joint Westinghouse and Alabama Power effort to identify technological and operational improvements to shorten start-up and shutdown times. In summary, shorter refueling outages mean a potential for increased availability as long as those activities required for high reliability are not sacrificed. In general, the improvements that result in shorter outages have also been determined to provide benefits in radiation exposure, personnel safety, and plant safety margin.

• Research Organization: Alabama Power Co., Birmingham
• OSTI ID: 5655525
• Report Number(s): CONF-870837-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 54
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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