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Optimized planning of in-service inspections of local flow-accelerated corrosion of pipeline elements used in the secondary coolant circuit of the VVER-440-based units at the Novovoronezh NPP

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Matters concerned with making efficient use of the information-analytical system on the flow-accelerated corrosion problem in setting up in-service examination of the metal of pipeline elements operating in the secondary coolant circuit of the VVER-440-based power units at the Novovoronezh NPP are considered. The principles used to select samples of pipeline elements in planning ultrasonic thickness measurements for timely revealing metal thinning due to flow-accelerated corrosion along with reducing the total amount of measurements in the condensate-feedwater path are discussed.

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  1. Geotherm-EM, Lefortovskii Val 24, Moscow, 111250, Russia

    G. V. Tomarov, A. A. Shipkov & T. N. Golubeva

  2. Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant, a Branch of the Rosenergoatom Concern, Novovoronezh, Voronezh oblast, 396072, Russia

    V. P. Povarov & A. F. Gromov

  3. Lenin Ivanovo State Power Engineering University, Rabfakovskaya ul. 34, Ivanovo, 153003, Russia

    V. A. Budanov

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Original Russian Text © G.V. Tomarov, V.P. Povarov, A.A. Shipkov, A.F. Gromov, V.A. Budanov, T.N. Golubeva, 2015, published in Teploenergetika.

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Tomarov, G.V., Povarov, V.P., Shipkov, A.A. et al. Optimized planning of in-service inspections of local flow-accelerated corrosion of pipeline elements used in the secondary coolant circuit of the VVER-440-based units at the Novovoronezh NPP. Therm. Eng. 62, 227–232 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S004060151503012X

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