Various pump applications utilized in a nuclear pressurized water reactor electric generating plant are described.
Emphasis is on pumps installed in the auxiliary systems of the primary nuclear stream supply system.
The design, manufacture, testing, and qualification of this equipment is carefully controlled by the equipment specification and purchase order contract. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has established design rules and regulations which control the design, quality assurance, and qualification process for safety related equipment used in the nuclear power plant. It is the utility plant owner's ultimate responsibility to obtain the operating license which entitles him to operate the plant to produce electricity. These pumps are those which most typify the pump applications used in fossil power, chemical, and petrochemical plants.