Outage performance of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:5860963

Idesawa, Masato ^[1]; Yokota, Masashi ^[2]

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1. Tokyo Electric Power Co., Niigata (Japan)
2. Tokyo Electric Power Co., Washington, DC (United States)

The generating capacity of Japanese nuclear power plants amounts to 31,480 MW and is equivalent to {approximately}30% of Japan's net capacity. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) provides service for 22 million customers, including those in metropolitan Tokyo. TEPCO operates 13 boiling water reactor (BWR) plants whose total capacity amounts to 12,396 MW; they supplied 70 billion kWh in 1990. This paper covers the maintenance management of TEPCO's nuclear power plants and provides detailed examples of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station (KKNPS). Another four plants will start commercial operation by 1997 at KKNPS. Of these, the last two are advanced BWR plants, which were cooperatively developed by TEPCO and foreign BWR vendors. To meet the increasing electricity demand of recent years, TEPCO is planning to enhance preventive maintenance, plant monitoring, and application of automatic systems based on past operating experiences to ensure more safe and reliable nuclear power plants.

• OSTI ID: 5860963
• Report Number(s): CONF-910603--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 63
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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