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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Thomas A. Ulrich, Ronald L. Boring, Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 674-683
Nuclear power plants across the U.S. must become more efficient in their operations to remain cost competitive with alternative energy sources. Data driven condition monitoring for maintenance provides a promising avenue for reducing the operational costs. A critical element to data driven condition monitoring is effective visualizations to convey actionable information to the operator to support their decision making and enable preventative maintenance without causing the plant to come offline and lose revenue. This paper describes the state of visualization in the current fleet or nuclear power plants, the existing visualization technologies and techniques the nuclear industry can embrace now, and cutting-edge or state-of-the-art visualization techniques the nuclear industry should invest time and money in researching and developing to enable more efficient condition monitoring for maintenance activities.