Seismic risk assessment as applied to the Zion Nuclear Generating Station

Conference · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6797426

Wells, J

To assist the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in its licensing and evaluation role, the NRC funded the Seismic Safety Margins Research Program (SSMRP) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with the goal of developing tools and data bases to evaluate the risk of earthquake caused radioactive release from a commercial nuclear power plant. This paper describes the SSMRP risk assessment methodology and the results generated by applying this methodology to the Zion Nuclear Generating Station. In addition to describing the failure probabilities and risk values, the effects of assumptions about plant configuration, plant operation, and dependence will be given.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6797426
• Report Number(s): UCRL-90410; CONF-840914-10; ON: DE84017099
• Resource Relation: Conference: International meeting on thermal nuclear reactor safety, Karlsruhe, F.R. Germany, 10 Sep 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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