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between an object to be processed and an electrode. This discharge operation is then used for surface treatment, drilling, cutting, etc. of the object EDM does not give any mechanical external force to the objects and it can be done on complicated objects by selecting the electrode geometry.

  1. Repair method with cracks left behind

A repair method to prevent SCC growth has been developed which uses cladding with cracks left behind and isolates the cracks from

[Source] :"Repair and preventive maintenance method of BWR core shroud", Japan Society of Maintenology Vol. 3, No. 3 (2004)

Figure 4.3.3 Concept of seal weld

the reactor water environment by sealing them (Figure 4.3.3). As underwater seal welding methods, laser welding and TIG welding techniques have been developed. Hie laser seal welding is shown schematically in Figure 4.3.4.

  1. Mechanical repair methods

Repair methods have been designed to install repair parts, such as tie rods, clamps, brackets and to make these parts accommodate the structural strength when SCC cracks are found. They have been applied depending on the crack

[Source] "'Development of Underwater Laser Cladding and Underwater Laser Seal Welding Techniques for Reactor Components", 13th International Conference of Nuclear Engineering, 2005, ICONE13-50141

Figure 4.3.4 Schematic of laser seal welding

location and geometry. A practical example using core shroud tie rods is shown in Figure 4.3.5.

  1. Replacement method

Replacement technologies for core internal components have been applied as measures against SCC. These technologies are applied as measures to prevent SCC in advance and measures after the occurrence of SCC. Large- scale replacement activities performed in Japan include shroud replacement and CRD stub tube replacement.

The shroud replacement work not only for replacement of the old core shroud with a one which has had measures taken against SCC, but it is also applied as an integrated maintenance method to replace jet pumps and to take measures against SCC for each nozzle at the same time. After removing in-core components, chemical decontamination of the inside of the reactor is performed, and after old core internal components are removed, new ones with

[Source] fToshiba-TVpe Core Shroud Work with Shroud Tie Rods" (Summary of Research Presentations, Thermal and Nuclear Power Convention in FY 2005)

Figure 4.3.5 Core shroud tie rod

measures taken against SCC are installed. After the decontamination, workers are able to go into the reactor bottom and perform the work. This is the integrated maintenance method

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which incorporates various kinds of innovative technologies in the course of the work.

Flow of shroud replacement work is shown in Figure 4.3.6.

(2) Piping maintenance technology against aging

Significant piping maintenance technologies related to aging are introduced for BWR plants. Major age-related events include SCC, pipe wall thinning and high cycle thermal fatigue cracks.

i) Piping preventive maintenance technologies against SCC

Joint efforts of the public and private sectors were made to address countermeasures against SCC in welds of the reactor coolant recirculation system (PLR) piping of BWR plants which occurred in the 1970s. It was confirmed that for SUS304stainless

steel, SCC was produced due to overlapping conditions of three factors: carbon content, residual tensile stress of the piping inner surface, and the amount of dissolved oxygen in the high temperature water. Countermeasures were taken accordingly. However, it was recently confirmed from the results of investigations on actual plant materials and experimental crack growth tests with simulated BWR reactor water environments, that low-carbon stainless steel (SUS316 (LC)), which had been considered not to produce SCC due to sensitization because of its low-carbon content, also experienced transgranular SCC due to an increase in transgranular SCC susceptibility when its surface hardens, which was propagated as intergranular SCC.. Preventive maintenance technologies and repair technologies concerning these types of SCC are summarized below.

After chemical decontamination and underwater cutting of shroud etc., in­vessel shields are put in place, and then, jet pump, shroud and reactor internals are to be restored one by one.

1 Chemical decontamination

2 Cutting of shroud etc,

3 Jet pump installation

4 Shroud support groove processing

5 New shroud installation

6 Restoration of reactor internals

[Source] : Toshiba catalog "Maintenance Technologies of Reactor Pressure Vessel and Core Internals"

Figure 4.3.6 Flow of shroud replacement work

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