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Optimizing Maintenance Strategies in Power Generation: Embracing Predictive and Preventive Approaches

Risk insights map an efficient approach to aging management

October 28, 2022, 3:00PMNuclear NewsSusan Gallier

Any method that can enhance safety, reduce risk, and lower costs is worth a second look. When that method proves it has the potential to optimize aging management at any nuclear power plant, it’s time to spread the word.

In 2019, a small team focused on selective leaching began looking for a way to use risk insights to optimize the implementation of deterministic aging management programs (AMPs). What they started soon grew into a large team effort by Constellation, Ameren, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), along with contractors Enercon and Jensen Hughes, to develop a generic framework and then test it in two very different pilot applications.

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Can we please stop this nonsense about what’s the best source of energy?

April 21, 2025, 9:21AMNuclear News

Nuclear is—period. But don’t take my word for it: ask the United Nations. The 2021 report Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options, by the UN Economic Commission for Europe...

Developing an RIPB design framework for external hazards

April 17, 2025, 12:17PMANS News

The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series on April 4....

My story: Jong H. Kim

ANS member since 1989

April 11, 2025, 9:31AMANS NewsJong H. Kim

How did I get interested in nuclear energy? I am a mechanical engineer by education, with a B.S. (Seoul National University), M.S. (University of Missouri), and Ph.D. (Caltech), and I am a...

Resurrecting Three Mile Island

January 24, 2025, 3:09PMNuclear NewsMatt Wald

When Exelon Generation shut down Three Mile Island Unit 1 in September 2019, managers were so certain that the reactor would never run again that as soon as they could, they had workers drain...

“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”

March 14, 2025, 9:31AMNuclear News

I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our...

“The time is now” to advance U.S. nuclear—Part 1

March 10, 2025, 3:34PMNuclear News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is gearing up to tackle an influx of licensing requests and oversight of advanced nuclear reactor technology, especially small modular reactors....

Grant awarded for advanced reactor workforce needs in southeast U.S.

March 3, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

North Carolina State University and the Electric Power Research Institute have been awarded a $500,000 grant by the NC Collaboratory for “An Assessment to Define Advanced Reactor Workforce...

RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary

February 24, 2025, 9:48AMNuclear NewsDaniel Moneghan and Brandon Chisholm

In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee...

Constellation to invest $100M in Maryland nuclear plant

February 12, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

Nuclear powerhouse Constellation Energy announced Tuesday it will spend roughly $100 million to upgrade critical electrical systems and plant equipment at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power...