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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
- Baffle-Former Bolts
- 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
- Point Beach 2003-2006 - Multiple/Repetitive Degraded Cornerstone Column
- Open Phase Conditions in Electric Power Systems
- Operating Reactor Maintenance Effectiveness
- PWR Sump Performance
- Radioactive Effluent and Environmental Reports
- Reactor Pressure Boundary Integrity Issues for Pressurized Water Reactors
- Reactor Vessel Integrity
- Safety Enhancements after Fukushima
- Special Inspection Activities Regarding Cask Loading Misalignment (SONGS)
- 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:
Page Last Reviewed/Updated Friday, January 04, 2019
