Download or read book Integrated Approach to Optimize Operation and Maintenance Costs for Operrating Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by IAEA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly competitive environment of the electricity sector has significant implications for nuclear power plant (NPP) operations. Management objectives must be focused on efficient operation as the key to profitability. The business and financial success of operating NPPs must be given greater consideration through an integrated approach which also ensures the successful achievement of safety and reliability objectives. In developing strategic and operational goals, nuclear plant managers will be required to embrace and articulate clear and measurable business objectives and goals which not only assure the achievement of safety and reliability but also eliminate unnecessary costs and identify investment opportunities. This publication looks at the optimization of the costs as an integrated part of the management of organization business process with a focus on planning (strategic and tactical) and on controlling (control system, corrective actions and pay reward) functions.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Integrated Approach to Optimize Operation and Maintenance Costs for Operating Nuclear Power Plants IAEA TECDOC Series written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated Approach to Optimize Operation and Maintenance Costs for Operrating Nuclear Power Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly competitive environment of the electricity sector has significant implications for nuclear power plant (NPP) operations. Management objectives must be focused on efficient operation as the key to profitability. The business and financial success of operating NPPs must be given greater consideration through an integrated approach which also ensures the successful achievement of safety and reliability objectives. In developing strategic and operational goals, nuclear plant managers will be required to embrace and articulate clear and measurable business objectives and goals which not only assure the achievement of safety and reliability but also eliminate unnecessary costs and identify investment opportunities. This publication looks at the optimization of the costs as an integrated part of the management of organization business process with a focus on planning (strategic and tactical) and on controlling (control system, corrective actions and pay reward) functions.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book Application of Reliability Centred Maintenance to Optimize Operation and Maintenance in Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication describes the concept of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) which is the term used to describe a systematic approach to the evaluation, design and development of cost effective maintenance programs for plant and equipment. The concept has been in existence for over 25 years originating in the civil aviation sector. The process focuses on the functionality of the plant and equipment and the critical failure mechanisms that could result in the loss of functionality. When employed effectively the process can result in the elimination of unnecessary maintenance activities and the identification and introduction of measures to address deficiencies in the maintenance program. Overall the process can result in higher levels of reliability for the plant and equipment at reduced cost and demands on finite maintenance resources. The application of the process requires interaction between the operators and the maintenance practitioners which is often lacking in traditional maintenance programs. The imposition of this discipline produces the added benefit of improved information flows between the key players in plant and equipment management with the result that maintenance activities and operational practices are better informed.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Application of Reliability Centred Maintenance to Optimize Operation and Maintenance in Nuclear Power Plants written by IAEA (Corporate Author) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is intended to assist managers of nuclear facilities in the adoption of reliability centred maintenance (RCM) programmes in order to optimize operating and maintenance costs. The process of RCM focuses on the functionality of the plant and equipment and on the critical failure mechanism that could result in loss of functionality. An overall RCM process can bring higher levels of reliability and reduce the cost and demands to maximize limited maintenance resources. A number of IAEA Member States currently operate nuclear power plants under an RCM approach; however, others do no.
Download or read book An Analysis of Nuclear Power Plant Operating Costs written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Nuclear Power Plant Operating Costs written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costs of Nuclear Power written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Office of Operations Analysis and Forecasting and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Maintenance Cost written by Dennis Michael Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Estimating Nonfuel Operation and Maintenance Costs for Alternative Nuclear Power Plants written by Millard L. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Change written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generation create environmental risks that could have significant negative economic, security, and human health consequences. Large-scale installation of cleaner power generation has been generally hampered because greener technologies are more expensive than the technologies that currently produce most of our power. Rather than trade affordability and reliability for low emissions, is there a way to balance all three? The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies considers how to speed up innovations that would dramatically improve the performance and lower the cost of currently available technologies while also developing new advanced cleaner energy technologies. According to this report, there is an opportunity for the United States to continue to lead in the pursuit of increasingly clean, more efficient electricity through innovation in advanced technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies makes the case that America's advantagesâ€"world-class universities and national laboratories, a vibrant private sector, and innovative states, cities, and regions that are free to experiment with a variety of public policy approachesâ€"position the United States to create and lead a new clean energy revolution. This study focuses on five paths to accelerate the market adoption of increasing clean energy and efficiency technologies: (1) expanding the portfolio of cleaner energy technology options; (2) leveraging the advantages of energy efficiency; (3) facilitating the development of increasing clean technologies, including renewables, nuclear, and cleaner fossil; (4) improving the existing technologies, systems, and infrastructure; and (5) leveling the playing field for cleaner energy technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies is a call for leadership to transform the United States energy sector in order to both mitigate the risks of greenhouse gas and other pollutants and to spur future economic growth. This study's focus on science, technology, and economic policy makes it a valuable resource to guide support that produces innovation to meet energy challenges now and for the future.
Download or read book Incremental Costs and Optimization of In core Fuel Management of Nuclear Power Plants written by Hing Yan Watt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is concerned with development of methods for optimizing the energy production and refuelling decision for nuclear power plants in an electric utility system containing both nuclear and fossil-fuelled stations. The objective is to minimize the revenue requirements for refuelling the power plants during the planning horizon; the decision variables are the energy generation, reload enrichment and batch fraction for each reactor cycle; the constraints are that the customer's load demand, as well as various other operational and engineering requirements be satisfied. This problem can be decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem is concerned with scheduling energy between nuclear reactors which have been fuelled in an optimal fashion. The second sub-problem is concerned with optimizing the fuelling of nuclear reactors given an optimized energy schedule. These two sub-problems when solved iteratively and interactively, would yield an optimal solution to the original problem. The problem of optimal energy scheduling between nuclear reactors can be formulated as a linear program. The incremental cost of energy is required as input to the linear program. Three methods of calculating incremental cost are considered: the Rigorous Method, based on the definition of partial derivativesis accurate but time consuring; the Inventory Value Method and the Linearization Method, based respectively on equations of inventory evaluation and linearization, are less accurate, but efficient. The latter two methods are recommended for the early stages of optimization. The problem of optimizing the fuelling of nuclear reactors has been solved for two cases: the special case of steady state operation, and the general case of nonsteady- state operation. The steady-state case has been solved by simple graphic techniques. The results indicate that reactors should be refuelled with as small a batch fraction as allowed by burnup constraints. The non-steady case has been solved by polynomial approximation, in which the objective function as well as the constraints are approximated by a sum of polynomials. The results indicate that the final selection of an optimal solution from a set of sub-optimal solutions is primarily based on engineering considerations, and not on economics considerations.
Download or read book Maintenance Optimization Programme for Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication deals with the latest nuclear power plant maintenance optimization programmes and provides key requirements and strategies for successful implementation. It documents shared proven maintenance optimization methods and techniques from Member States, including more detailed examples in the annexes of this publication.
Download or read book Cost Estimating Relationships for Nuclear Power Plant Operation and Maintenance written by H. I. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides cost estimating relationships for annual nonfuel operation and maintenance costs for light-water reactor nuclear power plants for electric power generation.
Download or read book Guidance for Optimizing Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Programmes written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reduction of Capital Costs of Nuclear Power Plants written by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and published by OECD. This book was released on 2000 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The competitiveness of nuclear power plants depends largely on their capital costs that represent some 60 per cent of their total generation costs. Reviewing and analysing ways and means to reduce capital costs of nuclear power plants are essential to enhance the economic viability of the nuclear option. The report is based upon cost information and data provided by experts from NEA Member countries. It investigates the efficiency of alternative methods for reducing capital costs of nuclear units. It will provide stakeholders from the industry and governmental agencies with relevant elements in support of policy making.
Download or read book International Atomic Energy Agency Publications written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
