Reactor Operational Experience
Key Topics
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:
- Access Authorization Programs
- Buried Piping Activities
- Concrete Degradation at Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
- Davis-Besse Reactor Vessel Head Degradation
- Fire Protection Program
- Fitness-for-Duty Programs
- Groundwater Contamination (Tritium)
- Human Factors
- Implementing Lessons Learned from Fukushima
- Multiple/Repetitive Degraded Cornerstone Column
- Operating Reactor Maintenance Effectiveness
- PWR Sump Performance
- Reactor Pressure Boundary Integrity Issues for Pressurized Water Reactors
- Reactor Vessel Integrity
- Steam Generator Action Plan
- Steam Generator Tube Degradation at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
Results and Databases
The NRC conducts risk studies and has compiled the results for a variety of previously published studies. For more information, see the following:
- Reactor Operational Experience Results and Databases
- Reactor Materials Embrittlement Dataset | Data Dictionary
Page Last Reviewed/Updated Friday, April 19, 2013
