INPO’s approach to human performance in the United States commercial nuclear power industry

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Muschara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry

Lessons Learned from Plant Modernization Programs and their Implications for Reactor Design

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (18) ◽  
pp. 1739-1742
Author(s):  
John O'Hara ◽  
James Higgins ◽  
J Persensky ◽  
Paul Lewis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Reactor Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Potential Safety

There is renewed interest in nuclear power in the United States and in constructing new reactors within the next decade. The new reactors likely will be based on advanced digital technology unlike most of the current plants. To better understand the human factors issues associated with these advanced systems, we studied plants that have undergone significant modernization using digital technology. Many of the lessons learned from these plants are also applicable to advanced designs and we are analyzing them with the goal of developing guidance for conducting safety reviews to ensure that both the modernization programs and advanced plant designs realize their potential safety and operational benefits and do not adversely impact human performance and safety. The purpose of this paper is to identify the lessons learned from the modernization programs and their implications for design reviews.

Analysis and Research on the Requirements and Applicability of “Hualong-1” Commissioning Standards

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoshi Jin ◽  
◽  
Chuangbin Zhou ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Standard System ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Source Countries

Chinese nuclear power standards are parallel due to a variety of technical routes and different technology source countries, resulting in a situation of multiple standards parallel in the domestic nuclear power industry. Through the comparative analysis of nuclear power standards in the United States and France, domestic electric power industry and domestic conventional thermal power industry, this paper seeks for the combination point with domestic nuclear power commissioning standard system, and combs and analyzes the existing standard system. Through industry research and data collection and analysis, combined with the technical characteristics of “Hualong-1”, the requirements and applicability elements of the commissioning standard system are determined, the framework of the commissioning standard system is optimized and improved, and the corresponding standard acquisition, formulation and revision plan of the standard system is formed, so as to guide the construction of commissioning standardization.

The U.S. Nuclear Power Industry: Past, Present, and Possible Futures

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Jurewitz
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Generation Capacity ◽  
Ultimate Outcome ◽  
Social Confrontation ◽  
The U.S

Although the United States generates only about 20% of its total electricity from nuclear power, it has almost twice as much nuclear generation capacity as any other country. This article presents an historical overview of the U.S. nuclear power industry and the policies that have shaped it. The U.S. nuclear industry is currently at a crossroads. The total number of nuclear powerplants has been virtually constant for over a decade. Over the coming years, it seems likely that the owners of most existing plants will succeed in securing extensions of their operating licenses. The critical question is whether new nuclear capacity will be built. Although it seems likely that some utility will attempt to build a new nuclear plant within the next decade, any such attempt will encounter a degree of public opposition based on environmental and security concerns. The ultimate outcome of this social confrontation is difficult to forecast.

scholarly journals Licensing Renewed

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (10) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Mintz Testa
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Plant Site ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
First Time

This article reviews that for the first time in a generation, utilities are starting the regulatory process to build nuclear reactors. There has been a virtual moratorium on new nuclear power plants in the United States during the past generation, and it has many causes. But one significant factor in the industry's decline was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process. There are now dozens of applications being submitted and approved for 20-year license renewals for established nuclear power plants. But before the nuclear power industry truly can be said to be reborn, new reactors must be constructed. The new rules allow for an early site permit and for a separate combined construction and operating license. Although the commission invited the nuclear power industry to test the two new processes when they were first announced, no company volunteered. One of the thorniest technical issues faced by the early applicants so far involves a new way of calculating, for a specific plant site, the ground motion that would result from a seismic event. When older plants were designed and built, the best available technique for these calculations was deterministic.

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