Patent Document ID: 9945814
Application ID: 14800076
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of non-destructively assessing a current condition of a number of tubes of a steam generator of a nuclear power plant, the method comprising: (a) establishing a model of the steam generator that comprises a set of baseline parameters for each of a plurality of exemplary regions of interest (ROIs) of a number of the tubes of the steam generator; (b) extracting a signal from each of a number of physical ROIs of a number the tubes; (c) comparing the signal from a given physical ROI of a tube with the set of baseline parameters of the corresponding exemplary ROI of the model; (d) triggering additional processing when at least a portion of the signal from the given physical ROI exceeds at least a portion of the set of baseline parameters of the corresponding exemplary ROI; (e) employing a primary automated analysis code for conducting steps (a) through (d); (f) generating a first set of results based on the primary automated analysis code; (g) employing a different secondary automated analysis code for conducting steps (a) through (d); (h) generating a second set of results based on the different secondary automated analysis code; (i) combining the first set of results and the second set of results; and (j) producing a single report including output from each of the first set of results and the second set of results generated by the primary automated analysis code and the different secondary automated analysis code, respectively, absent of duplicate entries.