Published 2008 | Version v1
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Four stops of fuel reloading with duration of less of 30 days in the Laguna Verde Central

Description

The Laguna Verde Central having established as mission 'With maximum priority in the safety, to generate electricity by nuclear means with competitive quality and cost, sustained in our personnel's continuous overcoming and deep respect to the environment' and respecting our values (safety, responsibility by results, professional integrity, continuous improvement, team work, excellence in the performance, quality of service, protection to the environment its thought about our strategic objectives of the power station being born by this way one of them that it is the improvement program 'reduction of reloading times' looking for to be improves every day comparing us with the best plants of the world effectiveness all the processes in the power station that allowed us to measure our performance with the same parameters that settle down at international level as its are nuclear safety, industrial safety, radiological safety, capacity factor, readiness factor, cleaning of the power station attachment to procedures, attention to the detail and certainly to be competitive in the economic aspect. After analyzing the performance record of the power station, evaluating our technical, economic capacity, the location of the installation besides revising the international experiences was defined that one of the concepts that impact considerably so much to the capacity factors and readiness besides the dose and production cost is the duration of the reloading periods, for this reason work strategies were elaborated to be able to reach our goals of reloading days in less than 30 days, here are formed the carried out actions that they made us complete the four last reloading in less than 30 days. (Author)

Availability note (English)

Available from the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Nuclear, 52045 Ocoyoacac, Estado de Mexico (MX). e-mail: svp@nuclear.inin.mx; rbc@nuclear.inin.mx

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Spanish)
Cuatro paradas de recarga de combustible con duracion de menos de 30 dias en la central laguna verde

Publishing Information

ISBN
978-968-9353-01-1
Imprint Pagination
8 p.

Conference

Title
19. Annual SNM Congress
Original Conference Title
Atoms for the development of Mexico
Dates
6-9 Jul 2008
Place
Merida, Yuc. (Mexico)

INIS

Country of Publication
Mexico
Country of Input or Organization
Mexico
INIS RN
39083155
Subject category
S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DIAGRAMS; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; MEXICO; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PERSONNEL; PLANNING; REACTOR FUELING; WANO; WORKING DAYS
Descriptors DEC
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY SOURCES; EVALUATION; FUELS; INFORMATION; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; LATIN AMERICA; MATERIALS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS