PWR Station Blackout and External Events Analysis for LWRS/RISMC Project
- Idaho National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415-3860 (United States)
In the framework of the US-DOE Light Water Reactor Sustainability/ Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization (LWRS/RISMC) project, methods, data and tools are being developed with the ultimate scope of improving the safety and operation of the current US nuclear fleet. A set of Industrial Applications (IA) concerning the most relevant safety issues is defined for applying and testing the developed tool kits. The ultimate scope of IA no. 2 is a realistic simulation of natural external hazards that impose threat to a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). This scope requires the development of a methodology and of a qualified set of tools able to perform advanced risk-informed safety analysis. In particular the methodology should be able to combine results from seismic, flooding and thermal-hydraulic (TH) deterministic calculations with dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). A so-called Risk Informed Margin Management (RIMM) approach is being used to represent meaningful (i.e., realistic facility representation and simulation) event scenarios and consequences by linking probabilistic simulations to external events physics. (authors)
- OSTI ID:
- 23042738
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 115; Conference: 2016 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 6-10 Nov 2016; Other Information: Country of input: France; 7 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US); ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
PWR TYPE REACTORS
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REACTOR OPERATION
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFETY ANALYSIS
SAFETY MARGINS
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THERMAL HYDRAULICS