Life Cycle Management for Components in Nuclear Power Plant Based on Weibull Process

Equipment life cycle management, including mean replacement time and life reliability, was determined based on distribution fitting of historical life data for most nuclear power plants. This method is used widely but it ignores the influence on facilities life of the repair and operating time. To solve this problem, based on the specialties of components in nuclear power plant, a new approach of data processing and life deciding was proposed with empirical method and failure rate indicator combined by Weibull process. The calculation of actual example proves that this new approach overcomes defects such as waste of information and risk of assumption error.