Winter ‘13 NDET in the Nuclear Industry An Overview Jethro Moses - 10BME0077 Karthik Ramaswamy - 10BME0079 Samuel Victor - 10BME0213 V I T U n i v e r s i t y Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 IN SERVICE INSPECTION .........................................
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Energy Procedia Energy Procedia 00 (2011)16 (2012) 153 – 158 Energy Procedia 000–000 www.elsevier.com/locate/procedia 2012 International Conference on Future Energy‚ Environment‚ and Materials Applications of Underwater Laser Peening in Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Jialei Zhu*‚Xiangdong Jiao‚Canfeng Zhou‚Hui Gao School of Mechanical Engineering‚ Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology‚ Beijing 102617‚ China Abstract Stress corrosion cracking is the major threat to the
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The short-term effect of the radioactive contamination in Fukushima nuclear power disaster A nuclear power disaster can result in terrible radioactive contamination. According to the report of Nuclear Safety and Security Institute‚ radioactive level in the central control room of Unit 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Station was 1000 times higher than its normal level after the earthquake. The communique reported that the amount of radiation around the gate of the nuclear power plant was increasing
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Applebaum Essay Anne Applebaum‚ an American Jewish journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author‚ has written extensively about communism‚ the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe‚ and about foreign affairs for the Washington Post. In one article Applebaum wrote for the Washington Post‚ she discusses the need to find new energy sources and her views against the expansion of nuclear power. Although Applebaum is an acclaimed writer‚ her argument against nuclear energy
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Throughout the world‚ countries are leaning towards nuclear energy due to the amount of energy it can produce with very little resources. This topic is worth investigating since energy is basically a must‚ now in the 21st century. It is now considered an essential to have energy in our lives to maintain our standards of living. We have gone to many different sources of energy other than nuclear energy such as coal‚ solar‚ wind‚ oil and more‚ but many of those energy source have flaws too. Some sources
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Efficient and economical forms of team processes Purpose: The research aims to study key team processes‚ through which the team members share their individual knowledge‚ create shared understanding of the team‚ situation‚ task‚ leading to high team performance. The current research also aims to understand how teams adapt with team processes to high task load situation. Design/Methodology: Video recordings of Nuclear Power Plant operator teams’ activity have been used for collecting and analysing
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My Hometown By Ehsan Mehrnia My Hometown‚ Ahvaz is a big and vast city in the west of Iran. It’s an overcrowded city with about 2 million people in a variety of almost all tribes of Iranian that live together with a sense of community and a little racism somehow in every tribe too. However‚ Ahvaz is very important city for my country in many aspects. Ahvaz is one of popular industrial zones of Iran. It is the capital of an important province of oil‚ petroleum and petrochemical manufactures
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Nuclear energy… Boon or Bane ? Nuclear energy? Nowadays these two words are always sticking on the society’s mouth‚ but do they know the actual meaning of it? Nuclear energy is basically defined as the energy released by the reaction within the nuclei‚ as in nuclear fission or fusion. The core reason of using nuclear energy is to generate electric power to satisfy human needs. Usage of the nuclear power plant as an energy generator came together with several boons and banes. As quoted by the
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Japan’s prime minister‚ Shinzo Abe‚ has promised to act quickly to address the buildup of huge quantities of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Abe‚ who recently suggested that the plant’s operator‚ Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco)‚ was incapable of overseeing the operation on its own‚ said the government would soon announce a comprehensive plan to deal with the world’s largest nuclear cleanup. The prospect of greater state involvement in decommissioning Fukushima
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Macro Analysis The following case analysis discusses the macro and micro elements that influence Luotang Power. When viewed as a company among dozens of others in the same firm‚ Luotang does not have a great impact to the industry in China. Although Luotang Power has been claimed to be successful and grew rapidly when it was first opened for business‚ the 20-year Build Operate Transfer (“BOT”) contract with the government is due very soon; the plant will be given to the Hubei Provincial Government
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