Interim/National Reliability Evaluation Programs

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6474204

Carlson, D D; Bernero, R M

Since the accident at Three Mile Island, there has been increasing interest throughout the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the industry at large in the use of probabilistic risk assessment techniques. As a result, the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research contracted with Sandia National Laboratories to perform the Interim Reliability Evaluation Program (IREP). This program is to develop procedures for performing probabilistic risk assessments and to apply them to several operating reactors. Subsequent to the beginning of IREP, a broader effort to develop PRA procedures has been undertaken by the NRC in cooperation with the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). This broader effort is to develop an Industry/ NRC PRA Procedures Guide. This latter guide is sometimes referred to as the NREP Procedures Guide, NREP standing for National Reliability Evaluation Program.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6474204
• Report Number(s): SAND-81-0920C; CONF-810454-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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