...-to-failure. 16 06 2009 23 08 2010 06 04 2011 06 04 2011 decision making fission reactor safety inspection maintenance engineering nuclear power stations occupational safety production management In recent years, the nuclear industries are living a “nuclear...

... 10 2010 creep fission reactor safety internal stresses nuclear reactor steam generators pipes stress relaxation Some steam generators are used to transfer the heat from primary sodium circuit to secondary water circuit. The need to evacuate the flows of energy produced...

... Schemes ,” Int. J. Pressure Vessels Piping 0308-0161 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2005.11.002 , 83 , pp. 154 – 160 . 14 12 2007 13 08 2008 26 06 2009 creep earthquake engineering fission reactor cooling fission reactor safety pipes 1 In a CANDU ® 6 reactor, feeder pipes...

... with the classical coupled method in terms of eigenfrequencies, eigenmodes, and effective modal masses. 17 08 2007 08 02 2008 11 02 2009 boilers eigenvalues and eigenfunctions finite element analysis fission reactor safety fission reactors heat exchangers modal analysis...

... failure analysis fatigue testing fission reactor design fission reactor safety fracture mechanics inspection nuclear reactor maintenance For the improvement of in-service inspection planning of nuclear plants, risk-based technologies have been implemented to a number of light water reactors...

... to the safety of nuclear power plants. eddy current examination fatigue crack Inconel weld reconstruction fatigue cracks chromium alloys iron alloys nickel alloys welds nuclear power stations fission reactor safety eddy current testing electrical discharge machining fission reactor...

.... This paper reviews and discusses five major topics pertinent to such revision. 18 01 2006 01 06 2006 fatigue fission reactor materials austenitic stainless steel alloy steel carbon steel fission reactor safety In the last 20 years following their report ( 1...

... to predict a temporal oscillation of the temperature. In general, the EBM predicts best the thermal stratification phenomenon in the upper plenum of the liquid metal reactor. 01 12 2005 18 05 2006 fission reactor cooling fission reactor safety turbulent diffusion stratified flow...

... is predominant. 26 08 2005 13 03 2006 fission reactor design fission reactor materials fracture nuclear power stations cracks fission reactor safety fracture toughness cyclic tearing reverse cyclic loading LBB assessment J-R curve The demonstration of LBB qualification...

...Heki Shibata nuclear power stations earthquakes nuclear reactor maintenance failure analysis fission reactor design fission reactor safety seismology nuclear facility regulation This papers deals with the importance of input ground motions for the seismic safety design of nuclear...

... of seismic hazards. Therefore, it becomes necessary to reassess the capability of the SSC of older safety-related facilities to withstand the effect of an earthquake in line with the present statutory requirements. ducts fission reactor design fission reactor materials fission reactor safety...

... reactor materials fission reactor theory fires fission reactor safety fracture steel tanks (containers) Pressure Vessel Design Margin Fire Exposure Thermal Rupture BLEVE Propane or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders and tanks come in a range of sizes. All of these vessels...

... 2004 15 03 2005 fission reactor materials pressure vessels steel embrittlement radiation effects fission reactor theory fission reactor safety copper nickel phosphorus Ferritic RPV materials undergo a transition in fracture behavior from brittle to ductile as the test...

.... , 2002 , “ On the characteristic distance and minimum fracture toughness for cleavage fracture in a C–Mn steel ,” Int. J. Fract. 0376-9429 10.1023/A:1022694607292 , 118 , pp. 57 – 76 . crack-edge stress field analysis fission reactor materials fission reactor safety ductile-brittle...

... reactor accidents fission reactor safety elastoplasticity viscoplasticity finite element analysis nuclear reactor maintenance nuclear engineering computing The rupture of a reactor pressure vessel under a core meltdown accident involves several phenomena such as viscoplastic straining...

... Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF PRESSURE VESSEL TECHNOLOGY . Manuscript received by the PVP Division September 26, 2003; revision received October 13, 2003. Associate Editor: G. C. Slagis. 26 September 2003 13 October 2003 26 02 2004 fission reactor safety fission...

...Gerry Slagis 26 02 2004 I would like to thank the authors and reviewers for their efforts to publish this special issue on seismic engineering. pressure vessels fission reactor design fission reactor safety earthquakes seismology fission reactor materials nuclear...

... September 2003 13 October 2003 26 02 2004 nuclear power stations seismology earthquakes fission reactor design fission reactor materials fission reactor safety pressure vessels One of the authors (Shibata) primarily intended to prepare a paper titled “Leadership concerning...

... corrosion cracking earthquakes seismology pressure vessels fission reactor safety fission reactor materials Shaking table tests with three-dimensional piping models were conducted in order to clarify the effect of degradation on dynamic behavior and failure modes of piping systems...

.... 27 May 2003 03 June 2003 04 11 2003 computational fluid dynamics fission reactor cooling fission reactor physics nuclear engineering computing thermal shock fission reactor safety Within the frame of the plant lifetime project, the assessment of the French Reactor...