Materials and Integrity of Components

Tasks

• Exchange of experience
• Failure analysis
• Specification of mitigation measures
• Co-ordination of research projects
• Publication of technical scientific reports and position papers
• Statements referring to requirements from the reactor safety commission
• Representation of interests in the working panel "Pressure Retaining Components"
• Updating of the state of the art
• Realisation in the power plants
• Publications

Service

• Position paper "Stress corrosion cracking of austenitic pipes under BWR-conditions"
• Technical scientific report "Assessment of the Stress Corrosion Susceptibility of Reactor Pressure Vessels Steels under BWR-Conditions"
• Technical scientific report: "Description of a Disposition Line on the Stress Corrosion Behaviour of Ferritic Pressure Vessel Steels under BWR-Conditions"
• Minutes of the meeting of a workshop concerning results from VGB/MPA-projects "Warranty of Safety and Availability of Light Water Reactors"