1. Maintenance objectives
1.1 Prevention of major accidents
The energy stored in the rotors is the source of the potentially serious consequences of major accidents involving high-power turbines (see ). The precautions taken at the turbine design, manufacture, operation and maintenance stages are designed to keep the probability of a major accident occurring to a very low level (around 10- 4 per unit per year). However, partial or total destruction of turbine-generator units does occasionally occur in the global fleet.
Major accidents can result from a variety of causes.
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