Overview of the Halden Reactor Project Activities on Cable Aging Management and Condition Monitoring, by Paolo Fantoni, CTO Wirescan.

The interest of safety aspects of wire systems aging is increasing worldwide because of their impact on several industrial fields, like power generation, transportation and defense. Although the environment conditions and degradation mechanisms of installed cables can be different from target to target, the negative consequences of wire failures, both from a safety and performance standpoint, are so important that almost all the countries in the industrialized world have some research project in progress in this area.

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