Published 1992
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Miscellaneous
Operational safety in a small utility
Creators
- 1. New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, Point Lepreau, NB (Canada). Point Lepreau Generating Station
Description
The New Brunswick Power Corporation has successfully integrated a relatively large nuclear unit, Point Lepreau, into a small utility. The unit has operated with a high degree of safety and reliability over the first ten years, while its safety has received zealous scrutiny by the Atomic Energy Control Board. Some of the success results from the requirements and the benefits of a smaller utility. Among the specific issues addressed in this paper are: maintenance activity to extend the life of pressure tubes; leak tests of the containment building; an incident involving the speed of response of instrumentation in the high moderator temperature trip circuitry
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the 32. annual conference of the Canadian Nuclear Association
- Imprint Pagination
- 449 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 337-349.
- Report number
- INIS-mf--13764
Conference
- Title
- 32. Annual conference of the Canadian Nuclear Association.
- Dates
- 7-10 Jun 1992.
- Place
- Saint John, NB (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 25015395
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTAINMENT BUILDINGS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LEAK TESTING; NEW BRUNSWICK; PERFORMANCE; POINT LEPREAU-1 REACTOR; PRESSURE TUBES; REACTOR MAINTENANCE; REACTOR OPERATION; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR SAFETY FUSES; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SCRAM
- Descriptors DEC
- BUILDINGS; CANADA; CANDU TYPE REACTORS; CONTAINMENT; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY; HEAVY WATER COOLED REACTORS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; INDUSTRY; MAINTENANCE; NATURAL URANIUM REACTORS; NORTH AMERICA; OPERATION; PHWR TYPE REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR SHUTDOWN; REACTORS; SAFETY; SHUTDOWN; TESTING; THERMAL REACTORS; TUBES