In our last post, FESI’s Chief Technical Advisor John Sharples provided a preliminary report of a one day workshop organised jointly by FESI and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) on April 10, 2019. Entitled Beyond Code Safety Requirements for Nuclear Pressure Systems, the format of the workshop differed from previous FESI events.
The morning sessions primarily consisted of the ONR and licensees’ representatives giving short presentations on three disciplines that contributed to structural integrity: materials testing, welding and manufacturing control; non-destructive examination (NDE) and inspection qualification; and stress and defect tolerance evaluation. During the afternoon, discussion groups were held in parallel for each of the technical areas.
Many of our speakers have kindly offered their workshop presentations to FESI in order for them to be published on our website and thus disseminated to a wider audience. Please click on the links provided to download the appropriate files:
Beyond Code Safety Requirements for Nuclear Pressure Systems (Opening Presentation)
Andrew Holt
Professional Lead for Structural Integrity, Office for Nuclear Responsibility (ONR).
Defect Tolerance Assessments
Alexander Price
Inspector—Nuclear Safety, Office for Nuclear Responsibility (ONR)
Materials, Testing, Welding and Manufacturing Control
Martin Lamb
Principal Inspector—Nuclear Safety, Office for Nuclear Responsibility (ONR)
NDT of Highest Reliability Components
Russ Booler
Principal Inspector—Nuclear Safety, Office for Nuclear Responsibility (ONR)
Nuclear Structural Integrity Challenges
Mike Martin
Engineering Associate Fellow –Structural Integrity, Rolls-Royce
Proportionate Inspection Assurance
Andrew Wood
Section Lead—Methods, Rolls-Royce
The Work of the UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity
Peter Flewitt
University of Bristol, Interface Analysis Centre, School Physics University of Bristol; Non-Executive Director, FESI
Beyond Design Code: Introduction of defect Tolerance Assessment of UK HPR1000
Jinkiang/Jin Ting
China General Nuclear Power Group, CGN
The FESI media team