1. Floating Nuclear Plant Pre-Assembled Control Module
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J. M. Leivo and R. J. Cooney
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Engineering ,Schedule ,business.industry ,Control engineering ,Nuclear power ,Automotive engineering ,Bottleneck ,Electricity generation ,Design objective ,Nuclear Energy and Engineering ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,Critical path method ,Lead time ,Electronic circuit - Abstract
The design and construction of nuclear power plants has always involved much effort in the electrical area relative to that required in many other industries. This is a result of the relatively large quantities of components that are centrally controlled and plant variables that are centrally monitored, together with separation criteria imposed on safety - related circuits. The Floating Nuclear Plant has basically these same considerations in electrical design and construction as a land-based plant, but in addition has a much shorter plant manufacturing lead time as a design objective. Thus, the electrical installation -- which is typically on the critical path at peak effort near the end of the plant construction schedule -- could be a bottleneck if conventional electrical installation methods were used. This paper discusses a design for reducing electrical installation lead time by reducing termination time and maximizing simultaneous installation effort through use of a prefabricated control module.
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- 1974
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