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    The document discusses valve problems in nuclear power plants. Thousands of valves are used for isolation and flow control and can change positions during transients, but sometimes fail to operate properly. Specifically, safety valves have failed to operate on demand due to water becoming trapped inside or lacking enough power to overcome pressure. When valves fail, it can cause the failure of an entire safety train and reduce redundancy, potentially resulting in the loss of an entire system if the failure mode is common. Lessons learned include the need for operability tests under hot conditions to discover inoperability issues before they cause problems. One plant found a safety valve could not open due to thermal binding once a planned surveillance test was conducted.

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    The document discusses valve problems in nuclear power plants. Thousands of valves are used for isolation and flow control and can change positions during transients, but sometimes fail to operate properly. Specifically, safety valves have failed to operate on demand due to water becoming trapped inside or lacking enough power to overcome pressure. When valves fail, it can cause the failure of an entire safety train and reduce redundancy, potentially resulting in the loss of an entire system if the failure mode is common. Lessons learned include the need for operability tests under hot conditions to discover inoperability issues before they cause problems. One plant found a safety valve could not open due to thermal binding once a planned surveillance test was conducted.

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    Topic: Experience With Valve Problems: Group Members

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    Anwer Shifa
    The document discusses valve problems in nuclear power plants. Thousands of valves are used for isolation and flow control and can change positions during transients, but sometimes fail to operate properly. Specifically, safety valves have failed to operate on demand due to water becoming trapped inside or lacking enough power to overcome pressure. When valves fail, it can cause the failure of an entire safety train and reduce redundancy, potentially resulting in the loss of an entire system if the failure mode is common. Lessons learned include the need for operability tests under hot conditions to discover inoperability issues before they cause problems. One plant found a safety valve could not open due to thermal binding once a planned surveillance test was conducted.

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    Topic : Experience with valve problems

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    Anwer Shifa Iqra Rafique Qudsia Ramzan Umaira Siddique 1908 1920 1956 1969

    10/26/2013

    Valves in Nuclear Power Plants


    Thousands of valves Used for isolation and flow control Change there position during transients Pressure locking due to thermal binding

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    Summery Of Reported Events


    Valves failure are recurrently reported to IRS(Incident reporting system) Safety valves are not able to operate on demand Water trapped inside No power to overcome the pressure force

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    Safety Significance

    Failure of valve causes failure of train Reduce inherent redundancy If failure mode common Loss would be at system level

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    Lessons Learned
    No operability test during hot conditions Thus the inoperability was not discovered until the valve was examined Planned surveillance test Valve would not opened due thermal binding Relief hole had not been drilled

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