Maintenance rule supports Millstone station´s recovery efforts [nuclear power plants]

Author

Hastings, K.B. ; Wilson, J.F.

Author_Institution

Northeast Utilities, Waterford, CT, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

8-13 Jun 1997

Firstpage

42680

Lastpage

1110

Abstract

Insights and improvements realized through implementing the Maintenance Rule at Millstone nuclear power station (USA) are presented. The Maintenance Rule is being used to support unit restart through demonstrated improvement in regulatory compliance activities and improved system performance. The system performance aspect of this paper focuses on the Maintenance Rule Goal Setting process with an emphasis on performance issues related to human factors. The causes and corrective actions for unacceptable performance on select Millstone station systems are discussed

Keywords

fission reactor safety; human factors; legislation; nuclear power stations; nuclear reactor maintenance; nuclear reactor quality assurance; project engineering; standards; 1209 MW; Maintenance Rule implementation; NRC Regulations; PWR; USA; human factors performance issues; nuclear power plants; projects; regulatory compliance activities; system performance; unit restart; Design engineering; Electric breakdown; Human factors; Inspection; Mars; Monitoring; Nuclear facility regulation; System performance; Systems engineering and theory; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Factors and Power Plants, 1997. Global Perspectives of Human Factors in Power Generation., Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Sixth Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3769-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HFPP.1997.624864

Filename

624864