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Mendoza G, G.; Viais J, J.; Carmona C, M., E-mail: gmg@nuclear.inin.mx
International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) (France); Sociedad Mexicana de Seguridad Radiologica A.C. (SMSR), Mexico D.F. (Mexico); Sociedad Nuclear Mexicana (SNM), Mexico D.F. (Mexico); Organismo Internacional de Energia Atomica (OIEA), Vienna (Australia); Federacion de Radioproteccion de America Latina y el Caribe (FRALC), Zacatecas (Mexico); Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), Washington, D.C. (United States)2006
International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) (France); Sociedad Mexicana de Seguridad Radiologica A.C. (SMSR), Mexico D.F. (Mexico); Sociedad Nuclear Mexicana (SNM), Mexico D.F. (Mexico); Organismo Internacional de Energia Atomica (OIEA), Vienna (Australia); Federacion de Radioproteccion de America Latina y el Caribe (FRALC), Zacatecas (Mexico); Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), Washington, D.C. (United States)2006
AbstractAbstract
[en] The politics of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (by its initials in English NRC) of the United States of America on the use of the Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) in activities of nuclear regulation it foments the use of this analysis technique to improve the decisions making, to reduce the unnecessary work in maintenance aspects, inspection and tests and to improve the regulatory efficiency. The inspection programs in service (ISI by its initials in English) developed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (by its initials in English ASME) it has been the one primary mechanism to prove the mechanical equipment in plants of nuclear energy, these programs indeed have been carried out in plants of nuclear energy by more of two decades. Their purpose is to identify the conditions, such as indications of cracks that are precursory of flights and ruptures which violate the integrity principles of the pressure frontier. The inspection in service activities include ultrasonic tests, surface tests and penetrating liquids test, also activities that include the scaffolds construction, removal of insulations and welding polishing. The inspections in service every 18 months during the times outside of service are executed. One of the objectives is to lower the costs of the inspections during the times outside of service and to reduce the exposure to the radiation by part of the personnel during these times out for inspections, while it is increased or it maintains the personnel's safety and the reliability. As part of the methodology a pipe segment is selected for which a fault in any point has the same consequences, being calculated the fault probability of the tube using the dimensions of the segment. In this work the inspection in service methodology is applied based on risk to an aspersion system of low pressure of the Laguna Verde Nucleo electric Central. For this system a reduction in the number of welding to inspect of 103 to only 15 is obtained, recommending only flight monitoring and pressure and flight tests for 13 considered segments of low risk. With the above-mentioned a substantial saving is obtained in the costs by inspection for the plant, avoiding the potential personnel's lesions by means of the reduction of the construction of scaffolds, removal of asbestos, removal of insulations and welding polishing. (Author)
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Inspeccion en servicio de tuberias basada en metodos de riesgo
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2006; 14 p; 1. american congress of the IRPA; Retos y tendencias para el continente americano respecto a la proteccion radiologica, la seguridad nuclear y el ambiente; Acapulco, Gro. (Mexico); 3-8 Sep 2006; 7. regional congress of radiological and nuclear safety; Retos y tendencias para el continente americano respecto a la proteccion radiologica, la seguridad nuclear y el ambiente; Acapulco, Gro. (Mexico); 3-8 Sep 2006; 24. annual meeting of the SMSR; Retos y tendencias para el continente americano respecto a la proteccion radiologica, la seguridad nuclear y el ambiente; Acapulco, Gro. (Mexico); 3-8 Sep 2006; 17. annual congress of the SNM; Retos y tendencias para el continente americano respecto a la proteccion radiologica, la seguridad nuclear y el ambiente; Acapulco, Gro. (Mexico); 3-8 Sep 2006
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