- Program
- Nuclear Power
Polymeric Materials in Nuclear Applications
The programme will benefit plant owners by improving safety, availability, and reducing costs. It will provide reports, guidelines, and recommendations on how to study polymer materials, predict aging, and detect damage.
The key goals are:
- Solving technical problems, like managing aging and ensuring quality.
- Sharing knowledge and expanding the expert group.
- Strengthening the use of polymer expertise in the industry
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Karlstads Energi
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Publications and reports
Here you will find reports and fact sheets from the program.
- Report
Cable Condition Monitoring Experiences at Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear power plant cables are subjected to ageing during their service life. Proper ageing management of cables is increasingly important as the plants age and lifetime extensions are considered.
|2025:1124Konsta Sipilä, Anna Bondeson
- Report
Examination of two In-Service-Aged PVC Cables from a Nuclear Power Plant
Two PVC instrumentation wires recovered from in-service for over 40 years have been examined.
|2025:1122Karin Jacobson
- Report
Thresholds for radiation sensitivity of polymers in combined radiation-thermal environments
Available data for polymer degradation in combined radiation-thermal environments can be used to justify radiation threshold values below which radiation effects are of little consequence to useful material properties.
|2025:1106Mathias C. Ceilina
- Report
Qualification of polymer materials for nuclear power applications
This study aimed to investigate how the Nordic power plants work with qualification of polymeric materials. The results can be used as a benchmark and base for improvements.
|2024:1050Anna Bondeson