Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability: Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mitsubishi’s Computerized HSI and Digital I&C System for PWR Plants....Pages 3-9
Design of an Integrated Operator Support System for Advanced NPP MCRs: Issues and Perspectives....Pages 11-26
Concept of Advanced Back-up Control Panel Design of Digital Main Control Room....Pages 27-31
U.S. Department of Energy Instrumentation and Controls Technology Research for Advanced Small Modular Reactors....Pages 33-39
Application of FPGA to Nuclear Power Plant I&C Systems....Pages 41-47
Prejob Briefing Using Process Data and Tagout/Line-up Data on 2D Drawings....Pages 49-55
Study on Modeling of an Integrated Control and Condition Monitoring System for Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 57-68
A Toolkit for Computerized Operating Procedure of Complex Industrial Systems with IVI-COM Technology....Pages 69-74
Development and Design Guideline for Computerized Human–Machine Interface in the Main Control Rooms of Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 75-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Overview of System Reliability Analyses for PSA....Pages 83-95
A Systematic Fault Tree Analysis Based on Multi-level Flow Modeling....Pages 97-103
Reliability Graph with General Gates: A Novel Method for Reliability Analysis....Pages 105-123
Design of Risk Monitor for Nuclear Reactor Plants....Pages 125-135
Review of Practicing Level-2 Probabilistic Safety Analysis for Chinese Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 137-143
Risk Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plant Applications Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment....Pages 145-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Condition Monitoring for Maintenance Support....Pages 155-160
Online Condition Monitoring to Enable Extended Operation of Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 161-176
Using Condition-based Maintenance and Reliability-centered Maintenance to Improve Maintenance in Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 177-185
Advanced Management of Pipe Wall Thinning Based on Prediction-Monitor Fusion....Pages 187-193
Non-destructive Evaluation of Material State by Acoustic, Electromagnetic and Thermal Techniques....Pages 195-203
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Non-contact Acoustic Emission Measurement for Condition Monitoring of Bearings in Rotating Machines Using Laser Interferometry....Pages 205-213
Crack Growth Monitoring by Strain Measurements....Pages 215-223
Acoustic Monitoring of Rotating Machine by Advanced Signal Processing Technology....Pages 225-233
The Wireless Diagnostic System for Motor Operated Valves....Pages 235-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Nuclear Plant Lifecycle Perspective....Pages 243-255
A Feasibility Study on Worksite Visualization System Using Augmented Reality for Fugen NPP....Pages 257-267
Augmented Reality for Improved Communication of Construction and Maintenance Plans in Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 269-274
3D Representation of Radioisotopic Dose Rates Within Nuclear Plants for Improved Radioprotection and Plant Safety....Pages 275-281
Wide Area Tracking Method for Augmented Reality Supporting Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Work....Pages 283-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Research on Software Systems Dependability at the OECD Halden Reactor Project....Pages 293-299
High Level Issues in Reliability Quantification of Safety-Critical Software....Pages 301-306
Software Reliability Analysis in Probabilistic Risk Analysis....Pages 307-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-322