Total Cost of Ownership and Nuclear Valve Projects

摘要

As the power industry prepares to begin building nuclear power plants again in the US, it is important to apply operating lessons learned to new plant designs to avoid the costly learning curve experienced during the 1980s and 1990s. The lessons from the nuclear island are well understood, documented and applied, but there is less emphasis on the secondary side where components are sometimes referred to as 'commodities.' This includes the pump or valve or instrument that is necessary for operations, but not necessarily engineered for that specific application. These secondary side components can affect the performance and capacity of the plant as easily as those in the primary side of the plant. The relationship between the utility, reactor designer, engineering procurement construction company and supplier must be different in the next round of nuclear construction.