Qualification works for the mechanized Pre-service Inspection (PSI) for the Primary Circuit of the new European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR)
The first European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) is being built on the site of Olkiluoto (Finland). The Finnish regulations of application impose that the Pre-Service and In-Service Inspections of the main primary components shall be performed with ultrasonic (UT) and Eddy current (ET) systems qualified according to ENIQ (European Network for Inspection Qualification) methodology. The scope of inspection is defined on the bases of ASME XI standard. Therefore the scope of qualifications will cover nearly 50 different inspection configurations in view of geometry, material and inspection targets. This paper aims at presenting the qualification process followed and at giving information and results on one of its applications: the qualification of UT system devoted to the examination of the surge line circumferential welds. IntelligeNDT System and Service GmbH, an AREVA and Siemens Company, is in charge of this work, in collaboration with the NDT sub division of the Mines & Surveillances department of AREVA NP. Enhanced UT acquisition and analysis tools based on phased arrays technology and SAPHIRPlus UT platform are used.
EPR ENIQ PSI Qualification
Jürgen LAUBE Frederic LASSERRE Guenter GUSE Jean Michel TCHILIAN
intelligeNDT Systems & Services an AREVA and SIEMENS Company; Erlangen, Germany ; Mines & surveillance department, Plant sector, AREVA Nuclear Power ; Paris, France ;
国际会议
第十七届世界无损检测会议(17th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing)
上海
英文
1302-1311
2008-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）