- Report
- Nuclear Power
Cable Condition Monitoring Experiences at Nuclear Power Plants
A nuclear power plant can contain up to 2 000 km of cables necessary for signal or electricity transfer, which makes it important but also time and resource consuming to ensure their proper function throughout the lifetime of the plant.
The purpose of this study was to analyse current practices in cable condition management, to identify good practices and possible areas for improvement. The report lists a wide variety of condition monitoring methods and good practices, making it possible for the power plants to benchmark and improve in this important area.
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