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Title: Demonstrate Ames Laboratory capability in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)

Abstract

In response to the damage which occurred during the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has implemented a Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) program to evaluate the safety of nuclear power facilities during events with a low probability of occurrence. The PRA can be defined as a mathematical technique to identify and rank the importance of event sequences that can lead to a severe nuclear accident. Another PRA application is the evaluation of nuclear containment buildings due to earthquakes. In order to perform a seismic PRA, the two conditional probabilities of ground motion and of structural failure of the different components given a specific earthquake are first studied. The first of these is termed probability of exceedance and the second as seismic fragility analysis. The seismic fragility analysis is then related to the ground motion measured in terms of ``g`` to obtain a plant level fragility curve.

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Research Org.:
Ames Lab., IA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10116789
Report Number(s):
IS-5087
ON: DE94005570
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-82
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jul 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SEISMIC EFFECTS; FAILURES; L CODES; B CODES; CONTAINMENT BUILDINGS; PROBABILITY; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; EARTHQUAKES; 220900; 990200; REACTOR SAFETY; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS

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Bluhm, D., Greimann, L., Fanous, F., Challa, R., and Gupta, S. Demonstrate Ames Laboratory capability in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10116789.
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Bluhm, D., Greimann, L., Fanous, F., Challa, R., & Gupta, S. Demonstrate Ames Laboratory capability in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). United States. doi:10.2172/10116789.
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Bluhm, D., Greimann, L., Fanous, F., Challa, R., and Gupta, S. Thu . "Demonstrate Ames Laboratory capability in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)". United States. doi:10.2172/10116789. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10116789.
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title = {Demonstrate Ames Laboratory capability in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)},
author = {Bluhm, D. and Greimann, L. and Fanous, F. and Challa, R. and Gupta, S.},
abstractNote = {In response to the damage which occurred during the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has implemented a Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) program to evaluate the safety of nuclear power facilities during events with a low probability of occurrence. The PRA can be defined as a mathematical technique to identify and rank the importance of event sequences that can lead to a severe nuclear accident. Another PRA application is the evaluation of nuclear containment buildings due to earthquakes. In order to perform a seismic PRA, the two conditional probabilities of ground motion and of structural failure of the different components given a specific earthquake are first studied. The first of these is termed probability of exceedance and the second as seismic fragility analysis. The seismic fragility analysis is then related to the ground motion measured in terms of ``g`` to obtain a plant level fragility curve.},
doi = {10.2172/10116789},
journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
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