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Title: A combined deterministic and probabilistic approach to estimate frequency of inadvertent criticality for a cask car lid drop event

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OSTI ID:751292

This paper estimates the frequency of postulated accident scenarios in which combinations of equipment failures and/or human errors associated with the lifting and moving of the cask car lid during fuel bundle loading/unloading operations lead to conditions which produce a criticality. As noted in the paper, bounding values are used for values where uncertainty is large. However, in general best estimate values are used to determine the scenario frequencies. This is consistent with current methodology where best estimates are calculated for the frequency domain and conservative estimates are calculated for the consequence domain.

Research Organization:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC09-96SR18500
OSTI ID:
751292
Report Number(s):
WSRC-MS-99-00857; TRN: US0000900
Resource Relation:
Conference: ICONE-8, Baltimore, MD (US), 04/02/2000--04/06/2000; Other Information: PBD: 11 Feb 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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