Generic safety insights for inspection of boiling water reactors

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6175293

Higgins, J C; Taylor, J H; Fresco, A N; Hillman, B M

As the number of operating nuclear power plants (NPP) increases, safety inspection has increased in importance. However, precisely what is important, and what is not important. What should one focus inspection efforts on. Over the last two years Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PR) techniques have been developed to aid in the inspection process. Broad interest in generic PRA-based methods has arisen in the past year, since only about 25% of the US nuclear power plants have completed PRAs, and also, inspectors want PRA-based tools for these plants. This paper describes the BNL program to develop generic BWR PRA-based inspection insights or inspection guidance designed to be applied to plants without PRAs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6175293
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG-39945; CONF-870601-20; ON: DE87012117
• Conference Information: Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society, Dallas, TX, USA, 7 Jun 1987
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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