Title :
Industry advances in reliability centered maintenance [nuclear plants]
Author_Institution :
Electr. Power Res. Inst., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only. There has recently been a marked growth in US utility application of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) methods. The number of nuclear plants having or planning significant investments in RCM has risen to 26, with 28 more units doing pilot programs to get on the learning curve. In 1991, Electricite de France made the decision to apply RCM to all of the French nuclear units
Keywords :
nuclear power stations; nuclear reactor maintenance; reliability; French nuclear plants; reliability centered maintenance; Cost function; History; Investments; Maintenance; Optimization methods;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0884-0
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301408
