Handbook of methods for risk-based analyses of technical specifications
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Avaplan Oy, Espoo (Finland)
- Science Applications International Corp., Dublin, OH (United States)
Technical Specifications (TS) requirements for nuclear power plants define the Limiting Conditions for Operation (LCOs) and Surveillance Requirements (SRs) to assure safety during operation. In general, these requirements are based on deterministic analysis and engineering judgments. Experiences with plant operation indicate that some elements of the requirements are unnecessarily restrictive, while a few may not be conducive to safety. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) Office of Research has sponsored research to develop systematic risk-based methods to improve various aspects of TS requirements. This handbook summarizes these risk-based methods. The scope of the handbook includes reliability and risk-based methods for evaluating allowed outage times (AOTs), scheduled or preventive maintenance, action statements requiring shutdown where shutdown risk may be substantial, surveillance test intervals (STIs), and management of plant configurations resulting from outages of systems, or components. For each topic, the handbook summarizes analytic methods with data needs, outlines the insights to be gained, lists additional references, and gives examples of evaluations.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Research; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Avaplan Oy, Espoo (Finland); Science Applications International Corp., Dublin, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 10117861
- Report Number(s):
- NUREG/CR-6141; BNL-NUREG-52398; ON: TI95006633; TRN: AHC29508%%192
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Dec 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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