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Power Plant Operating and Maintenance Costs

Description: Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing costs of power plant operations. As stated in the objective, "the objective of this study was to determine and evaluate operating and maintenance costs for nuclear power plants" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: April 1970
Creator: Susskind, H. & Raseman, C. J.
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Role of design complexity in forecasting reliability and availability for electric-power-generating units. Final report

Description: This report examines the relationship between design complexity and reliability and availability performance for fossil-fueled electric-power-generating units. Multivariate regression analysis was applied to design complexity and reliability and availability performance data gathered from a representative sample of electric-power-generating units. Twelve predictive relationships or equations were developed as a result of employing this statistical procedure. Each equation was verified and asses… more
Date: October 1, 1982
Creator: Berkey, D.M. & Balaban, H.S.
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Health and safety impacts of nuclear, geothermal, and fossil-fuel electric generation in California. Volume 7. Power plant reliability-availability and state regulation

Description: Data from the Edison Electric Institute annual report on equipment availability are briefly examined with a view to determining the breadth of effort which would be required to reduce outage time caused by equipment difficulties. For nuclear units, for several size categories of fossil units, and for gas turbine units, the basic data are examined to establish the basic operating experience and related outage and availability rates, and to assign outages to major plant systems. Related data givi… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Nero, A. V. & Bouromand, I. N. M. N.
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Selection of alternative central-station technologies for the Satellite Power System (SPS) comparative assessment

Description: An important effort in the Satellite Power System (SPS) Comparative Assessment is the selection and characterization of alternative technologies to be compared with the SPS concept. This report summarizes the ground rules, criteria, and screening procedure applied in the selection of those alternative technologies. The final set of central-station alternatives selected for comparison with the SPS concept includes: (1) light water reactor with improved fuel utilization, (2) conventional coal com… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Samsa, M.E.
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Nature and Utility of Some Unsteady Characteristics of a Fossil-Fuel-Fired Boiler

Description: The dimensionless temperature rise rate of an initially cold fossil-fuel-fired boiler and the boiler's off-cycle cooling rate are examined analytically. If the thermal relaxation times for the non-water-containing boiler elements are to be relatively short, simplified expressions are found for the time variation of the dimensionless boiler temperature. The utility of these analytic results is examined in the light of experimental observations.
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Berlad, A. L.
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Generating technology assessment. Phase I work plan, Task 1 report

Description: A plan of work outlining information to assess electric generating technologies is presented. Projections are made of realistic and understandable engineering and cost assessments of nonnuclear electrical generating technologies. A computer-based method of producing such engineering and cost estimates for use by EIA's Coal and Electric Power Analysis Division is to be developed and implemented. Technologies and processes to be assessed are: all nonnuclear conventional and nonconventional (coal … more
Date: October 15, 1979
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Solar power arrays for the concentration of energy technical report covering task 4b. Solar hybrid plants: power system interface analyses

Description: A model is developed which yields the solar flux density distribution on the surface of a vertical cylindrical receiver mounted on a tower centrally located in a horizontal circular ring-shaped mirror field. The flux density at a given location on the receiver surface is shown to be given by the numerical integration of a simple analytical expression. Strategies are examined for redistributing the solar flux input to obtain a desired distribution or maintain a specified distribution throughout … more
Date: November 1, 1975
Creator: Albertson, V. D.
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Energy Economic Data Base Program (EEDB-VIII): Phase VIII update (1986) report

Description: The objective of the Energy Economic Data Base (EEDB) Program is to provide current, representative and consistent power plant technical and cost information to the US Department of Energy (DOE). These data are useful for program planning by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, because they are representative of current US power plant construction cost experience and are developed on a consistent, organized basis.
Date: December 1, 1986
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Nuclear economics 2000: Deterministic and probabilistic projections of nuclear and coal electric power generation costs for the year 2000

Description: The total busbar electric generating costs were estimated for locations in ten regions of the United States for base-load nuclear and coal-fired power plants with a startup date of January 2000. For the Midwest region a complete data set that specifies each parameter used to obtain the comparative results is supplied. When based on the reference set of input variables, the comparison of power generation costs is found to favor nuclear in most regions of the country. Nuclear power is most favore… more
Date: June 1, 1987
Creator: Williams, K.A.; Delene, J.G.; Fuller, L.C. & Bowers, H.I.
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ABWR: PL-2 Design Report

Description: From preface: This report satisfies the quarterly progress report requirements for PL-1 and PL-2 plant design work for the period ending September 30, 1960 At present time a SL-1 Core 2 is under construction. This is a replacement core for SL-1 (ALPR) and will be identical to a PL-2 core; a PL condenser is under test at the SL-1 facility; final construction plans for PL components and modules which are not site sensitive will be completed in March 1961.
Date: October 15, 1960
Creator: Combustion Engineering, inc. Nuclear Division.
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User's guide for the BNW-III optimization code for modular dry/wet-cooled power plants

Description: This user's guide describes BNW-III, a computer code developed by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) as part of the Dry Cooling Enhancement Program sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The BNW-III code models a modular dry/wet cooling system for a nuclear or fossil fuel power plant. The purpose of this guide is to give the code user a brief description of what the BNW-III code is and how to use it. It describes the cooling system being modeled and the various models used. A detai… more
Date: September 1, 1984
Creator: Braun, D. J. & Faletti, D. W.
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Steam Power Plants in Aircraft

Description: "The employment of steam power plants in aircraft has been frequently proposed. Arguments pro and con have appeared in many journals. It is the purpose of this paper to make a brief analysis of the proposal from the broad general viewpoint of aircraft power plants. Any such analysis may be general or detailed" (p. 1).
Date: June 1926
Creator: Wilson, E. E.
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Level-one modules library for DSNP: Dynamic Simulator for Nuclear Power-plants

Description: The Dynamic Simulator for Nuclear Power-plants (DSNP) is a system of programs and data sets by which a nuclear power plant or part thereof can be simulated at different levels of sophistication. The acronym DSNP is used interchangeably for the DSNP language, for the DSNP precompiler, for the DSNP libraries, and for the DSNP document generator. The DSNP language is a set of simple block oriented statements, which together with the appropriate data, comprise a simulation of a nuclear power plant.… more
Date: September 1, 1978
Creator: Saphier, D.
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Desalting sea water and brackish waters: a cost update

Description: This report, based on first-quarter 1977 dollars, is an update of costs presented in ORNL/TM-5070 (Rev.), which gave cost estimates for desalting seawater and brackish waters based on first-quarter 1975 financial parameters. Cost estimates are given for desalting seawater by distillation and reverse osmosis and for brackish waters using reverse osmosis and electrodialysis. Cost data were computed as a function of plant size and energy cost. The cost of generating steam and electrical energy on-… more
Date: October 20, 1977
Creator: Reed, S. A. & Wilson, J. V.
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Guide for prioritizing power plant productivity improvement projects: modification and simplification of the DOE/MRI methodology

Description: In recent years, the subject of public utility power plant productivity and reliability has received significant attention from both federal and state agencies and from within the utilities. One study was a FEA-sponsored program that had as its purpose the development of improved techniques for assessing cause of power plant unavailability. The results of this study have become widely known as the DOE/MRI methodology for calculating increased power plant equivalent availability resulting from i… more
Date: March 1, 1981
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Solar central receiver hybrid power system. Monthly technical progress report for the month of December 1978

Description: Levelized busbar energy costs for the sodium-cooled hybrid central receiver concept using both oil and coal as a fuel were developed as a function of the plant capacity factor and as a function of the solar multiple. The fuel escalation question was reviewed in detail on the basis of past historical data, and it was concluded that the lower escalation numbers that are provided in the requirements definition document appear to be more likely to represent the real situation. Subsystem-level trade… more
Date: January 17, 1979
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Power plant performance analysis and guidelines study. Appendix III. Reliability and efficiency index data

Description: Historical data from the EEI, FPC, NRC, FEA, and participating utilities were evaluated for each of the four reliability and efficiency indices recommended to the California Energy Commission. Data were not available for all unit sizes for the full period 1971 to 1975. However, the available data were analyzed to arrive at historical averages and ranges of averages for each of the recommended indices. Feasible ranges and averages of each index for units of different sizes and fuel types are pre… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Keller, R. W.; Bhatla, A. & Smith, M. J.
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Power plant performance analysis and guidelines study. Appendix II. Reliability and efficiency indices

Description: Four indices of power plant performance have been identified for use by the CERCDC in the technical evaluation of cost-effective levels of reliability and efficiency of future power plants, to be sited in the State of California. The selected indices are Capacity Factor, Operating Availability, Equivalent Availability, and Heat Rate. The write-up on each index includes a discussion on the Index Definition, Historical Data Availability/Sources and Recommendations for Application by the Commissio… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Keller, R. W.; Bhatla, A. & Smith, M. J.
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Report on equipment availability for the ten-year period, 1967--1976. A report of the Equipment Availability Task Force of the Prime Movers Committee

Description: Data are tabulated on the availability and outage rates for all types of electric power generating plants operating in the U.S. during the period from 1967 through 1976. The power plant types include fossil-fueled, nuclear, hydro, and pumped storage. The outages include those scheduled for maintenance and normal operation and unplanned or forced outages. (LCL)
Date: December 1, 1977
Creator: Haueter, R. L.; Haddad, E. E.; Brickell, M. C.; Poeppelmeier, V. E.; Prestele, J. A.; Roettger, R. W. et al.
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Taxonomy of the nuclear plant operator's role

Description: A program is presently under way at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to define the functional design requirements of operational aids for nuclear power plant operators. A first and important step in defining these requirements is to develop an understanding of the operator's role or function. This paper describes a taxonomy of operator functions that applies during all operational modes and conditions of the plant. Other topics such as the influence of automation, role acceptance, and t… more
Date: January 1, 1981
Creator: Kisner, R. A.; Fullerton, A. M.; Frey, P. R. & Dougherty, E. M.
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