Containment Leak
Testing Seminars
This is a Very Comprehensive Course That Will Address the Below Topics:
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The Concept and Current State of Primary Containment
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Technical and Regulatory Basis for ILRT
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Pretest Preparations and Test Procedure
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Resources Required and Time Line for Test Preparations
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Instrumentation and Software
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Test Set-Up
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Air Compressor System Rental and Set-Up
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Pressurization
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Stabilization
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Type A Test
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Verification Test
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Depressurization
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Test Report and Records
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Complete technical and regulatory references will be provided on all aspects of ILRT.
Some Key Cost Saving Features Are:
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Techniques to Insure a Short Duration Test
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Reduction in Test Valve Line-Up by Not Venting and/or Draining
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Techniques to Reduce Instrument Set-Up Time
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Rapid Depressurization Methods and Case Studies
Seminar Features:
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ILRT Simulations from Actual Past ILRTs
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Simulations Showing How to Control Pressurization to Minimize
Stabilization Time -
How to Distinguish from Test Data Real Leakage from Instability
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How to Identify a Bad Instrument That is Silently Corrupting Confidence Limits or Verification
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Recent Advances in ILRT Instruments and Analytical Techniques
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Site Specific Analysis of Past ILRTs Requested by Attendees
Lessons Learned:
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A Discussion of Discovered ILRT Leakage from the Last 20 Years Will be Presented
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The Most Likely Paces to Look and the Best Methods of Discovery are Discussed
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Lessons Learned from Industry-Wide Recent Testing is Presented
Speaker: Jim Glover
​For 19 years, Mr. Glover worked for Exelon as the ILRT and LLRT Appendix J Program Director. During that time, he performed over 100 ILRTs on both BWRs and PWRs. Since then he has performed an additional 40 ILRTs as a private consultant.
Mr. Glover is currently the Chairman of the ANS 56.8 Standards Committee on containment leakage rate testing. He was a member of the NEI AHAC that wrote the original Appendix J guideline document NEI-9401.
He also developed and sold the ILRT instrumentation system which is currently and has beenused at most US nuclear plants since 1994.