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Reactor Operational Experience

Reactor Safety Focus Areas

As part of operational experience monitoring, the agency will periodically encounter certain reactor systems or management areas it identifies as focus areas. This section describes focus areas that the agency is reviewing or working to improve and upgrade:

Control Room Habitability
Davis-Besse Reactor Vessel Head Degradation
Fire Protection
Fitness-for-Duty Programs
Access Authorization Programs
Human Factors
Operating Reactor Maintenance Effectiveness
Multiple/Repetitive Degraded Cornerstone Column
PWR Sump Performance
Reactor Pressure Boundary Integrity Issues for Pressurized Water Reactors
Reactor Vessel Integrity
Steam Generator Action Plan
Groundwater Contamination (Tritium)
Buried Piping Activities

Results and Databases

The NRC conducts risk studies and has compiled the results for a variety of previously published studies. For more information, see Reactor Operational Experience Results and Databases.

Reactor Operational Experience

Reactor Safety Focus Areas

Results and Databases

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