Understanding and mitigating ageing in nuclear power plants Materials and operational aspects of plant life management (PLIM) - Tipping, Philip G. (Woodhead Publishing Ltd, 2010)
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Part 1 Introduction to PLiM: Nuclear energy, materials and operations-- Key elements of PLiM for long-term operation-- Safety regulations and license renewal-- Probabilistic and deterministic safety assessment-- Socio-economic impacts. Part 2 Ageing degradation of irradiated materials in systems, structures and components: Failure prevention and analysis-- Operational loads and creep-, fatigue- and corrosion-interactions-- Microstructure evolution of irradiated structural materials-- Stress corrosion cracking in light-water reactors (LWR)-- Void swelling and irradiation creep in LWRs-- Irradiation hardening and materials embrittlement in LWRs-- Reactor pressure vessel (RPV) annealing and mitigation. Part 3 Analysis of materials and advanced SSC: Characterisation of irradiated and ageing materials-- On-line and real-time corrosion monitoring-- Multi-scale modelling of irradiation effects-- Instrumentation and control-- Nanostructured materials. Part 4 PLiM practices in nuclear power plants: PWR-- WWER-- BWR-- PHWR-- SFR-- Magnox/AGR-- Outlook