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Reliability Data for Nuclear Power Plant Components - Analysis for 2004 (TW 804)

 The aim of the report is to provide reliability data that can be used in ongoing and future probabilistic safety analyses (PSA) conducted by the owners/operators of nuclear power plants. The Centralized Reliability and Events Database (ZEDB) gathers and analyzes operating experience gained at a large number of nuclear power plants. The ZEDB use the two-stage Bayesian models to calculate plant-specific and generic reliability data. The report includes the general descriptions of ZEDB database and methodology of analysis as well as the results of analysis. The data tables consist of three parts: a characterization of the component population, a list of the determined generic values, and a list of the determined plant-specific values. The publication of the English edition is under way.

VGB Newsletter Re-designed

 After re-design of the VGB Internet presence last year, VGB also re-structured its monthly Newsletter. The new VGB Newsletter is to inform you concisely about all news of our industry and our association. Links refer to more detailed and further information in the Internet.

GLOBAL ENERGY - 2005 PRIZE Awarded to Prof. Klaus Riedle

 Prof. Klaus Riedle, SIEMENS Power Generation Erlangen, and member of the board of curators of the VGB Research Foundation has been laureated by the international committee awarding the GLOBAL ENERGY - 2005 PRIZE for his developments in the field of advanced gas turbines.

65 Million Tons of Coal Combustion Products in Europe

 Based on the ECOBA statistics on "Production and Utilisation of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) in Europe (EU 15) in 2003"

EU-Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announces support for a coal-fired power plant with highest efficiency as an EU „Lighthouse Project“

 Andris Piebalgs, within the new commission responsible for energy, has recently stressed the importance of coal for Europe’s future electricity supply. ...

COMTES700 Paves the Way for Future European Clean Coal-Fired Power Plants

 Coal will remain an indispensable major source of energy for European power gen-eration in the coming decades...

VGB Figures and Fact about Electricity Generation

 New Edition 2004 ot the VGB Flyer

Heinrich-Mandel Prize for Simulation of Gas Hydrate Decomposition and Investigations on Mercury Characteristics

 Michael Hocquel and Heyko Juergen Schultz were awarded with the Heinrich-Mandel Prize 2004 on the occasion of the VGB Congress "Power Plants 2004" in Cologne.

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 New internet performance of VGB

Reference Power Plant North Rhine Westphalia

 The English version of the 120-page final report on the research project "North Rhine Westphalia Reference Power Plant" can be ordered...
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