Steam Generators for Nuclear Power Plants

Jovica R Riznic, PhD., P.Eng., FASME, is a Technical Specialist with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), working on regulatory analysis and assessment of technical issues with operating nuclear power plants (NPP). He served CNSC on various position, including nuclear safety analysis and managing the CNSC Research and Support Program. He served as an adjunct professor/thesis advisor at the University of Waterloo, Mc Master, and Purdue Universities and currently is on faculty at Algonquin College in Ottawa in the School of Business and the Centre for Continuing and Online. He conducted research at Argonne National Laboratory, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the areas of heat and mass transfer, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, multi-phase thermo-fluid systems, nuclear reactor safety and reliability, and engineering management. He is currently coordinating a team providing Canadian contribution to a number of international research projects with US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD NEA) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to address issues of material degradation and safe operation of piping components and steam generators of CANDU and Light Water Reactors. Also, he leads a team of researchers working with Purdue University on refining the CANTIA methodology for steam generator tube integrity, leakage inspection and probabilistic assessment. Currently he is the Founding Editor of the ASME Nuclear Engineering and Technology for 21st Century Concise Monographs Series, Associate Editor of the ASME Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Journal and the on the Editorial Board of the Nuclear Engineering and Design Journal.

Part One: Design and Manufacturing
1. Introduction to steam generators- from Heron of Alexandria to nucleasr power plants: Brief history and literature survey
2. Nuclear steam generator design
3. Nuclear steam generator manufacturing
4. Thermal hydraulics, circulation and steam-water separation in nuclear steam generators

Part Two: Operation and Maintenance
5. Steam-Water cycle chemistry relevant to nuclear steam generators
6. Corrosion Problems Affecting Steam Generator Tubes in Commercial Water Cooled Nuclear Power Plants
7. Environmental degradation of materials in nuclear steam generators
8. Corrosion product transport and fouling in nuclear steam generators
9. Corrosion hideout and hideout return in nuclear steam generators
10. Deposit management in nuclear steam generators: Chemical cleaning and decontamination
11. Thermal Performance Degradation
12. Flow induced vibrations in nuclear steam generators
13. Structural integrity of nuclear steam generators
14. Nuclear steam generator inspection and testing
15. Nuclear steam generator tube inspection tools
16. Nuclear steam generator fitness-for-service assessment
17. Regulatory requirements and consideration for nuclear steam generators
18. Fitness for service Guidelines
19. VVER Steam Generators
20. VVER Steam Generators - Modelling & Simulations
21. Leakage through cracked tubes
22. Secondary side components - operating experience
23. Full Bundle Probabilistic Analysis, for the Evaluation of Steam Generator Tube Integrity
24. Maintenance of steam generators at nuclear power plants/ Vendors perspective on SG Inspections
25. Operation and maintenance of nuclear steam generators- Utility Perspective
26. Nuclear steam generator tube manufacturing
27. Probabilistic Models for Steam generator Life Cycle Predictions. Probabilistic Modelling Approaches for Flaw Growth Rate Estimation in a Multi-Component System.
28. Replacement Steam Generators
29. Fretting Fatugue in Steam Generators
30. Modeling to two-phase flow fluidelastic instabilities
31. Degradations by foreign objects
32. Transient behaviors of steam generators

Part Three: Emerging Topics
33. Printed Circuit Steam Generators
34. Helical Coil steam generators
35. Instrumentation & Control and Artificial intelligence
36. Steam Generators for Fusion Reactors
37. Steam Generators for Fast Breeder Reactors
38. Steam Generators for High Temperature reactors
39. Nuclear steam generators: Conclusions