RISMC Advanced Safety Analysis Project Plan – FY 2015 - FY 2019
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
In this report, a project plan is developed, focused on industry applications, using Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization (RISMC) tools and methods applied to realistic, relevant, and current interest issues to the operating nuclear fleet. RISMC focuses on modernization of nuclear power safety analysis (tools, methods and data); implementing state-of-the-art modeling techniques (which include, for example, enabling incorporation of more detailed physics as they become available); taking advantage of modern computing hardware; and combining probabilistic and mechanistic analyses to enable a risk informed safety analysis process. The modernized tools will maintain the current high level of safety in our nuclear power plant fleet, while providing an improved understanding of safety margins and the critical parameters that affect them. Thus, the set of tools will provide information to inform decisions on plant modifications, refurbishments, and surveillance programs, while improving economics. This set of tools will also benefit the design of new reactors, enhancing safety per unit cost of a nuclear plant. The proposed plan will focus on application of the RISMC toolkit, in particular, solving realistic problems of important current issues to the nuclear industry, in collaboration with plant owners and operators to demonstrate the usefulness of these tools in decision making.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1168645
- Report Number(s):
- INL/EXT-14-33186; M3LW-14IN0707014; TRN: US1600075
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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SAFETY ANALYSIS
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SAFETY MARGINS
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WATER COOLED REACTORS
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PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
DESIGN
SUSTAINABILITY
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SIMULATION
STORAGE
VERIFICATION
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