Diakont and Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. Complete First Buried Piping In-Line Inspection at a US Nuclear Power Plant
Diakont and Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. Complete First Buried Piping In-Line Inspection at a US Nuclear Power Plant
3 PagesDiakont and Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. Complete First Buried Piping In-Line Inspection at a US Nuclear Power Plant San Diego, California – Diakont, along with strategic partner Structural Integrity Associates, Inc., recently completed the group’s first buried piping in-line inspection project at a US nuclear plant. The inspection was performed in October 2012 on an 18” High Pressure Coolant Injection (HPCI) line at Cooper Nuclear Station. Utilizing a crawler tool equipped with Diakont’s patented Electro-Magnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) technology, the team performed a 100%-coverage inspection of the safety-related HPCI pipe section. Inspection preparations by Structural Integrity included code-based, finite element analyses to establish the acceptance criteria in the event th
