EPRI Journal articles from September 2000

EPRI Journal archives from September 2000

Preserving the Nuclear Option for Energy Security.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Regulatory approval of the first renewed operating licenses for U.S. nuclear power plants has set the stage for a new era--one that ensures a continuing role for nuclear energy in preserving America's energy security and resource diversity....

BWR Water Chemistry Guidelines--2000 Revision.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The control of BWR water chemistry increases plant availability by reducing intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) in cooling-system piping and reactor internals. The latest revision of the BWR Water Chemistry Guidelines presents new...

Decontamination Handbook.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Decontamination has played a key role in reducing occupational exposures to radiation at U.S. nuclear power plants over the past decade. In this process, dilute chemical solvents are used to remove deposited radioactivity EPRI has been at the...

Lightning Protection Design Workstation 5.0.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 22, 2000... EPRI's Lightning Protection Design Workstation[TM] is a state-of-the-art tool to help engineers design lightning protection for transmission and distribution lines, using such techniques as shielding, improved grounding, line arresters, and...

Electricity Pricing Book.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Pricing in today's rapidly changing industry is the focus of a new book edited by Ahmad Faruqui, EPRI's area manager for retail and power markets, and Kelly Eakin, vice president of the energy consulting firm Christensen Associates. The book,...

EMF Management Reference Book.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Research by EPRI and other organizations over the past 20 years has provided much practical information about the management of electric and magnetic fields near power delivery facilities. The results of this research have been consolidated in...

Pinpointing Hot Spots in Combustion Turbine Blades.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Some 75% of all new generating capacity planned in the United States over the next decade is expected to be based on combustion turbines. As the use of these turbines increases, plant operators are becoming acutely aware of the machines'...

New Push for Sustainable Coal Power.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... As noted in EPRI's Electricity Technology Roadmap, population growth and efforts to raise the standard of living for billions of impoverished people are forecast to create a greater than fourfold increase in worldwide electricity demand by...

License Renewal Revitalizes the Nuclear Industry.
September 22, 2000... The operating licenses of approximately 10% of current U.S. nuclear reactors are scheduled to expire by the end of 2010, an eventuality once seen as the beginning of the end for the nuclear option in the United States. But well-maintained...

Retail Service Offerings: Thinking Beyond Price.
September 22, 2000... The Story in Brief Is price really the only consumer concern in signing up with an energy retailer? Will energy service providers be limited to the razor-thin profits of commodity-based sales under retail competition? EPRI's Share Wars...

Powering Healthcare's Future.
September 22, 2000... Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are under pressure to maintain the quality of patient care while controlling costs in an increasingly competitive business environment. To help this important customers segment meet both its quality and...

GasVue Helps WAPA Bring [SF.sub.6] Leaks to Light.(Western Area Power Administration)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The GasVue camera for locating leaks of sulfur hexafluoride ([SF.sub.6]) dielectric is helping the Western Area Power Administration minimize releases of that greenhouse gas from transmission equipment for a far-flung network of federal...

HTS Cable Project, Wire Manufacturing Advance.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Detroit Edison has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy for its leadership in demonstrating new technology for high-temperature super conducting (HTS) power cable in a project supported by DOE and EPRI. Dan Reicher, assistant...