An approach for assessing ALWR passive safety system reliability [electronic resource].

Published:: Rockville, Md. : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1991.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: Pages: (17 pages) : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Many advanced light water reactor designs incorporate passive rather than active safety features for front-line accident response. A method for evaluating the reliability of these passive systems in the context of probabilistic risk assessment has been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. This method addresses both the component (e.g. valve) failure aspect of passive system failure, and uncertainties in system success criteria arising from uncertainties in the system's underlying physical processes. These processes provide the system's driving force; examples are natural circulation and gravity-induced injection. This paper describes the method, and provides some preliminary results of application of the approach to the Westinghouse AP600 design.

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E 1.99:sand-91-1459c
E 1.99: conf-911079--15
conf-911079--15
sand-91-1459c

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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1991.
"sand-91-1459c"
" conf-911079--15"
"DE92004013"
19. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) water reactor safety information meeting, Bethesda, MD (United States), 28-30 Oct 1991.
Hake, T M.

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AC04-76DP00789

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