The equipment - an owners perspective

As an operator of a nuclear power plant, Bruce Power's main objectives in their steam generator program are: Safe and Reliable Operation; Simple and Effective Maintenance Strategies; Efficient and Cost Effective Inspection Techniques; and, Plant Longevity. Bruce Power is looking to the steam generator industry to support them in meeting these objectives. The industry needs to maintain and develop new skill sets to provide the operator with methods to improve plant safety, reliability and profitability through steam generator performance improvements and strategic outage planning and execution. Bruce Power has many different steam generator challenges that require industry support to maximize asset life. Operation and maintenance of steam generators in a nuclear power plant are demanding on a company's resources and requires the industry to understand and focus their efforts on supplying solutions for the operator to ensure safe, reliable and economic operation to the planned end-of-life and life-extension targets. (author)