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Title: A combined deterministic and probabilistic approach to estimate frequency of inadvertent criticality for a cask car lid drop event

Abstract

This paper estimates the frequency of postulated accident scenarios in which combinations of equipment failures and/or human errors associated with the lifting and moving of the cask car lid during fuel bundle loading/unloading operations lead to conditions which produce a criticality. As noted in the paper, bounding values are used for values where uncertainty is large. However, in general best estimate values are used to determine the scenario frequencies. This is consistent with current methodology where best estimates are calculated for the frequency domain and conservative estimates are calculated for the consequence domain.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
751292
Report Number(s):
WSRC-MS-99-00857
TRN: US0000900
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-96SR18500
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: ICONE-8, Baltimore, MD (US), 04/02/2000--04/06/2000; Other Information: PBD: 11 Feb 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; CRITICALITY; FUEL ELEMENT CLUSTERS; MATERIALS HANDLING; CASKS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION

Citation Formats

Blanchard, A. A combined deterministic and probabilistic approach to estimate frequency of inadvertent criticality for a cask car lid drop event. United States: N. p., 2000. Web.
Blanchard, A. A combined deterministic and probabilistic approach to estimate frequency of inadvertent criticality for a cask car lid drop event. United States.
Blanchard, A. 2000. "A combined deterministic and probabilistic approach to estimate frequency of inadvertent criticality for a cask car lid drop event". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/751292.
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abstractNote = {This paper estimates the frequency of postulated accident scenarios in which combinations of equipment failures and/or human errors associated with the lifting and moving of the cask car lid during fuel bundle loading/unloading operations lead to conditions which produce a criticality. As noted in the paper, bounding values are used for values where uncertainty is large. However, in general best estimate values are used to determine the scenario frequencies. This is consistent with current methodology where best estimates are calculated for the frequency domain and conservative estimates are calculated for the consequence domain.},
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year = {Fri Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2000},
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