On August 31st 2018, the measurement of the radiation dose rate in the air was stopped because the monitoring post No. 1 was shut down by the local flood after a heavy rain in the Noto area of Ishikawa Prefecture. The heavy rain which we didn’t have in the past was occurred in a short time and a large amount of fallen leaves and branches blocked the drainage around the station of the monitoring post No. 1, and also the station of the monitoring post No. 1 was located in a low-lying depression. As the final ...
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Failure of monitoring post No.1 by heavy rain at Shika Nuclear Power Station

At the Shika Nuclear Power Station, Combustibles is managed to prevent fire and lessen its impact in the event of a fire outbreak,and areas where combustibles, etc., can be stored and their storage method are decided. Areas are subdivided for management into three areas. In areas where combustibles, etc., can be stored, we set values for each area that limit the heat value of combustibles, etc., to prevent exceeding the fire resistant capabilities of the area, and store objects so that this limit is not...
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Management of Combustibles, etc., at the Shika Nuclear Power Station

In the Nuclear Power Station, maintenance of many equipment are performed by time-based maintenance which overhaul the equipment at the reactor outages intervals. However, there is a tendency that has become an excessive maintenance such as inspection interval is short in time-based maintenance, on the contrary there is a risk that shorten the life of the equipment is concerned. Therefore, it is promoting the introduction of condition-based maintenance to implement maintenance at the appropriate timin...
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Efforts of condition based maintenance in Shika Nuclear Power Station