Predictable Safety in the Control of High Consequence Systems

Conference · Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:1070

Cooper, J A; Covan, J M

Many industries transmit large amounts of energy under the control of safety critical systems, inadvertent release of energy by such systems can result in negative high consequences. Thirpaper describes aprincipie-ba.re dstrategyfor preventing inadvertent release due [O normai operational stresses or abnormal (e.g., accident) stresses. The sajetyprin- ciples, deveioped by Sandia )?a~ional Laboratories for im- bedding detonation safety in nuclear weapons, include iso- [atio~ inoperabilip and incompatibility. There principles will be defined in the paper. They are illustrated and con- trasted to conventionalpractice via the application to a gas jiunace control system.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1070
• Report Number(s): SAND98-2295C; ON: DE00001070
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3rd IEEE High-Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium; Washington, DC; 11/13/1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Sandia National Laboratories
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