AREVA Liner Repair Strategy Based on Adhesive Technology

Abstract

Over long experience, the global nuclear power industry has relied on AREVA NP strengths in developing rapid, safe, and effective solutions to nuclear power plant operating problems. Over the entire spectrum of nuclear plant operations, we partner with utilities to keep plants running, keep generating capacity up, and keep the world powered. AREVA NP has developed a repair method for sealing leakages in austenitic stainless steel liners, especially in nuclear power plants. This technology is either a repair, when applied after failures already occurred, or a prophylaxis, when applied before such failures occur. An important new area of AREVA NP’s armament of nuclear services for the nuclear industry has been perfected over the past 20 years in more than 35 sites worldwide. AREVA NP’s process for detecting, coating, and sealing liner leaks offers a safe, effective, responsible, and highly economical way to repair and prevent leakage.