Reliability assurance for regulation of advanced reactors

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5769174

Fullwood, R; Lofaro, R; Samanta, P

The advanced nuclear power plants must achieve higher levels of safety than the first generation of plants. Showing that this is indeed true provides new challenges to reliability and risk assessment methods in the analysis of the designs employing passive and semi-passive protection. Reliability assurance of the advanced reactor systems is important for determining the safety of the design and for determining the plant operability. Safety is the primary concern, but operability is considered indicative of good and safe operation. This paper discusses several concerns for reliability assurance of the advanced design encompassing reliability determination, level of detail required in advanced reactor submittals, data for reliability assurance, systems interactions and common cause effects, passive component reliability, PRA-based configuration control system, and inspection, training, maintenance and test requirements. Suggested approaches are provided for addressing each of these topics.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5769174
• Report Number(s): BNL-47162; CONF-911106-87; ON: DE92010138
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE nuclear science symposium, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 5-9 Nov 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
REACTOR LICENSING
REACTOR SAFETY
DATA ACQUISITION
INSPECTION
MAINTENANCE
REACTOR OPERATION
RELIABILITY
RISK ASSESSMENT
TESTING
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NUCLEAR FACILITIES
OPERATION
POWER PLANTS
SAFETY
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
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