The Bathtub Curve, Nuclear Safety, and Run-to-Failure

[bananas]

The NRC’s Operating Experience Branch issued a report on component failures from 2007 to 2011. More than 75% of the failures examined in this study involved components used longer than their recommended service lifetimes. The NRC’s report referred to it as being “run-to-failure.”

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Deliberately running safety components beyond service lifetimes until they fail is not only irresponsible, it is illegal. The NRC must not run away from its charter and obligation to protect public health and safety by failing to stop this lawbreaking nonsense.

Read the rest: http://allthingsnuclear.org/dlochbaum/the-bathtub-curve-nuclear-safety-and-run-to-failure

[Throckmorton]

1. The maintenance rule 10-CFR-50.56 has changed the designation

It is now run to maintenance. What a farce.

After 28 years as a system engineer at a nuclear plant, I quit 2 years ago. Accident day is coming to US plant and I no longer wanted deal with it.

[bananas]

2. Happy Thanksgiving, Throckmorton. nt