Metallurgy Services for the Nuclear Power Industry
Metallurgy Services to support Nuclear Power Plants, including Material and Metallurgical issues ranging from construction to operation, reliability, and safety issues.
Intertek has extensive experience working on nuclear projects around the world. Services focus on corrosion, welding, aging of materials and systems in the nuclear steam supply system, and integrity management of the balance of plant for commercial nuclear reactors for boiling water reactors (BWR), pressurized water reactors (PWR), and Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactors.
Intertek's expertise covers a range of nuclear materials and metallurgical issues, including nuclear plant construction, containment weld cracking, materials for containment embeds, integrity of containment post tensioning tendons, valve failures, and the operability and corrosion of essential cooling water systems.
Key Metallurgical Engineering and Testing Services for the Nuclear Industry include:
- Finite Element Stress Analysis
- Fracture, Fatigue Analyses, Leak-Before-Break, and Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Assessment of Corrosion Issues
- Evaluation of Remaining Life and Reliability of Components
- Degradation Management Support Welding and Nondestructive Examination
- Development of JCOs for Difficult to Manage Degradation
- Design and Material Selection for Corrosion
- Assessment of Environmental Degradation
- Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Plants
- Cathodic Protection and Coatings Application
- MIC and Service Water System Corrosion
- Component Ranking for Susceptibility and Inspection Planning
- High Temperature Oxidation and Creep
- Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) Evaluations