Application of reliability-centered maintenance to component cooling-water system at Turkey Point Units 3 and 4. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5124604

Vasudevan, R; Smith, A M

A systematic decision logic tree approach was developed by the commercial airlines in the late 1960s to define the preventive maintenance (PM) program for the wide-body jet aircraft. The approach was refined and improved in later years by the military and airlines and became known as Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM). This report describes a pilot project for a prototype application of RCM to an operating nuclear power plant system for assessment of the usefulness of the approach in the nuclear industry. The prototype RCM application on the Component Cooling Water System successfully demonstrated that the methodology is directly applicable for developing or revising PM programs in the nuclear industry. A brief comparison of the existing and RCM based PM tasks indicated estimated reductions of 40% in man-hours and 30% in materials cost per plant-year. It is projected that additional savings would be realized in both corrective maintenance and forced system outage reductions.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc., San Jose, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5124604
• Report Number(s): EPRI-NP-4271; ON: TI86920029
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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