Patent Document ID: 20160018362
Application ID: 14800076
Patent Flag: 0

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 of 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; and (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 secondary automated analysis code for conducting steps (a) through (d); (h) generating a second set of results based on the secondary automated analysis code; (i) combining the first and second set of results; and (j) producing a single report including output from each of the first and second set of results, in the absence of duplicate entries.