Standardized Data Processing and Tamper-Evident Reporting for Nuclear Leak Testing

Laec Lorentzen

Faculty Supervisor: Corey O’Hern

Laec Lorentzen

Leak testing is one of the most important parts of nuclear power plant operation. As such a large and established industry, there are many different methods used for testing and data processing that must conform to several different standards and regulatory agencies. As well, for legal accountability reasons, it is highly important to have very well organized documentation dating back decades. To address these issues, this project proposes a standardized data input system that automatically creates time stamped and tamper evident outputs for data, as well as creating automatically formatted reports. The end goal is to create a flexible tool that can be used within a variety of existing processes. To this end, a versatile template has been developed, which can accept and process data of any form, as well as recognizing specific types of data to be processed and displayed graphically. This includes a clearly formatted .pdf output containing all of the input data, as well as a hashed .zip file. This framework is intended to be developed further into a tool for potential use by specific industry power plants, leak testing agencies, and regulatory boards.