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Kurtz, R.J.; Clark, R.A.; Bradley, E.R.; Bowen, W.M.; Doctor, P.G.; Ferris, R.H.; Simonen, F.A.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA). Div. of Engineering; Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)1990
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA). Div. of Engineering; Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)1990
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[en] The Steam Generator Tube Integrity Program/Steam Generator Group Project was a three-phase program conducted for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by Pacific Northwest Laboratory. The main goal of the program was to provide the NRC with validated information on the reliability of nondestructive examination techniques to defects and size flaws in steam generator tubing and to determine the remaining integrity of service-degraded tubing. This report summarizes the findings of more than eleven years of research activity on steam generator tube integrity and inspection issues. The results of the Phase 1 pressure tests on mechanically-flawed steam generator tubing are presented. In addition, the laboratory eddy current (EC) sizing results on those tubes are summarized. A discussion of Phase 2 pressure test results on chemically-degraded tubes is given, along with a brief overview of leak-rate data for tubes with laboratory-produced axial or circumferential stress-corrosion cracks (SCC). Comparisons with a simple analytical leak rate model are discussed. Laboratory EC estimates of flaw size in Phase 2 specimens are described. To supplement the laboratory EC data and obtain an estimate of EC reliability to detect and size SCC, results of a mini-round robin involving several firms that routinely perform field inservice inspections are presented
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May 1990; 205 p; CONTRACT AC06-76RL01830; NTIS, PC A10/MF A01 - GPO as TI90014408; OSTI; INIS
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