Risk-informed methodologies for inservice inspections of safety related piping in nuclear power plants were formally established in mid-1990s in the U.S. Since then, they have been adopted and applied by almost all of the U.S. plants. Nowadays, risk-informed inservice inspection (RI-ISI) is considered to be a standard for the operating plants in the U.S. It was not long before the RI-ISI practice started to be “exported” from the U.S. to other countries. By now, RI-ISI had found its way to a number of European and other countries. Among the recent examples is the Krško Nuclear Power Plant (Krško NPP), a two-loop Westinghouse-designed PWR located in Slovenia and owned by Slovenian and Croatian utilities. Krško NPP finished its third inservice inspection (ISI) interval in July 2012 and initiated implementation of the RI-ISI program at the start of the fourth interval. The process used to develop the RI-ISI program conformed to the methodology described in Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) Topical Report TR-112657 and included a degradation mechanism evaluation, consequence analysis and risk characterization for ASME Class 1 and Class 2 piping, as well as an element/examination selection process, risk impact assessment and inspection implementation program development. This paper describes the development of the Krško NPP RI-ISI program and the results of its RI-ISI application. A discussion is, also, provided on some aspects relevant for application of RI-ISI approaches developed in the U.S to plants outside of the U.S.
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2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
July 29–August 2, 2013
Chengdu, China
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- Nuclear Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5578-2
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Scott Kulat,
Scott Kulat
Inservice Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
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Robin Graybeal,
Robin Graybeal
Inservice Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
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Benjamin Montgomery,
Benjamin Montgomery
Inservice Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
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Justin Božič
Justin Božič
Krško NPP, Krško, Slovenia
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Scott Kulat
Inservice Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
Robin Graybeal
Inservice Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
Benjamin Montgomery
Inservice Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
Ivan Vrbanić
APoSS d.o.o., Zabok, Croatia
Ivica Bašić
APoSS d.o.o., Zabok, Croatia
Zrinka Čorak
Inetec d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia
Justin Božič
Krško NPP, Krško, Slovenia
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ICONE21-16550, V001T01A040; 13 pages
Published Online:
February 7, 2014
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Kulat, S, Graybeal, R, Montgomery, B, Vrbanić, I, Bašić, I, Čorak, Z, & Božič, J. "Development of RI-ISI Program for Krško NPP." Proceedings of the 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Volume 1: Plant Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Modifications, Life Cycle and Balance of Plant; Nuclear Fuel and Materials; Radiation Protection and Nuclear Technology Applications. Chengdu, China. July 29–August 2, 2013. V001T01A040. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE21-16550
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