Published July 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Nuclear industry embraces reliability-centered maintenance

  • 1. Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)

Description

This article discusses a common sense approach to maintenance that increases the reliability of power plants at a reasonable cost. The topic of the article include the debut of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) in the airline industry, early utility experience is reviewed, the rational behind RCM, implementing RCM, cost and benefits of the program, outage rate falls, the EPRI RCM user's group, and cost trends of one-time RCM costs

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Power Engineering (Barrington)
Journal Volume
97
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 25-28.
ISSN
0032-5961
CODEN
POENAI

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
25022478
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Descriptors DEI
COST; EPRI; MAINTENANCE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OPERATION; OUTAGES; PLANNING
Descriptors DEC
NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS