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The Nuclear Power Industry faces materials condition and performance issues that range from common place to many that are industry unique. These issues impact a large inventory of both active and passive system structures and components ranging from large assets to the smallest of parts.

The need for plant owners to maintain material assets is a necessity to generate power safely and reliably as well as to satisfy regulatory commitments. Plant license renewal activities guide the industry anew to address both current and emerging material reliability issues.

These industry driving forces have encouraged Nuclear plant owners to focus on:

• Effective materials aging programs (alloy 600, flow accelerated corrosion, service water corrosion, boric acid corrosion, etc)
• The need to predict, detect and mitigate challenges to materials integrity
• Being proactive rather than reactive in addressing material aging issues
• Understanding the reason for material failure through effective failure analysis and root cause analyses.

Because materials reliability is a foundation to plant reliability, Altran Solutions has focused on providing comprehensive services in this area. Our depth of service and breadth of service speaks of itself including:

• Nuclear materials experts on staff
• An investigative laboratory, including the ability to receive radioactive specimens
• Expertise in related areas including nuclear systems, component engineering, equipment reliability processes
• Extensive engineering analyses capabilities necessary to support failure analysis and root cause determination activities
• Expertise in many plan programs that address materials aging issues