System and method for managing components, in particular welds, of nuclear power plants using an interactive database

摘要

The disclosed invention is a system and a method utilizing a web-based interactive database (20) to automate the process for managing internal components (90,94) of a plant. The system captures all essential information and provides (80,84,88) on-line up-to-date information upon request. The system provides valuable information to a customer to analyze the plant specific problem and offers inspection methods (104), mitigation methods (110) and processes to resolve the problem (118).