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Sensitivity of risk parameters to human errors for a PWR

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OSTI ID:5919076
Sensitivities of the risk parameters, emergency safety system unavailabilities, accident sequence probabilities, release category probabilities and core melt probability were investigated for changes in the human error rates within the general methodological framework of the Reactor Safety Study for a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). Impact of individual human errors were assessed both in terms of their structural importance to core melt and reliability importance on core melt probability. The Human Error Sensitivity Assessment of a PWR (HESAP) computer code was written for the purpose of this study.
Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor (USA). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; Nuclear Regulatory Commission
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
5919076
Report Number(s):
BNL-NUREG--28060; CONF-801107--78; ON: TI85004756
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English