... facility regulation fatigue fracture mechanics pressure vessels fission reactor design fission reactor materials flaw detection fission reactor monitoring ageing elastoplasticity In Japan, there have been recent significant changes in nuclear regulation policy that is, in “The utilization...

... reactor materials fission reactor monitoring fission reactor operation Evaluations of nuclear power plant safety have assumed that passive components such as pressure vessels and piping systems have very low failure probabilities, such that failures of these components make only negligible...