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Title: Treatment of Passive Component Reliability in Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization FY 2010 Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1004257· OSTI ID:1004257

The Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization (RISMC) pathway is a set of activities defined under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program. The overarching objective of RISMC is to support plant life-extension decision-making by providing a state-of-knowledge characterization of safety margins in key systems, structures, and components (SSCs). A technical challenge at the core of this effort is to establish the conceptual and technical feasibility of analyzing safety margin in a risk-informed way, which, unlike conventionally defined deterministic margin analysis, is founded on probabilistic characterizations of SSC performance.

Research Organization:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE - NE
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC07-05ID14517
OSTI ID:
1004257
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT-10-20013; TRN: US1100955
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English