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Tractebel Energy Engineering helps reducing the duration of planned outage at Doel 1 & 2

A new milestone in the "Doel 1/2 second ten-yearly safety reassessment" project

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Since 1983, Tractebel Energy Engineering (TEE) has gained considerable experience in the field of safety reassessment of NPPs. All 7 Belgian units have already been subject to such a process carried out each 10-years of operation. TEE approach is pragmatic, cost-effective, global and integrated.

At the end of 2000, a new important milestone has been achieved in the "Doel 1/2 second ten-yearly Safety Reassessment" project: the revision of the Synthetic Report has been presented to the competent authorities.

Already more than half of the subjects have been closed, which is quite a success considering the thoroughness of the Inspection Organisation's scrutiny of this project.

The most salient event of past year was the approval of the accident reassessments, which makes it possible for new key parameters to be applied in core management. As a result, core-management performance is substantially enhanced, achieving savings of an average of four fresh fuel elements per cycle for both units.

Other tasks carried out in the framework of this project were related to ageing of electrical and mechanical components, availability of safety systems, equipment qualification, fire protection, diesel reliability, QA, operating feedback.
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