Selected component failure rate values from fusion safety assessment tasks

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/752571· OSTI ID:752571

Cadwallader, L C ^[1]

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1. Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company

This report is a compilation of component failure rate and repair rate values that can be used in magnetic fusion safety assessment tasks. Several safety systems are examined, such as gas cleanup systems and plasma shutdown systems. Vacuum system component reliability values, including large vacuum chambers, have been reviewed. Values for water cooling system components have also been reported here. The report concludes with the examination of some equipment important to personnel safety, atmospheres, combustible gases, and airborne releases of radioactivity. These data should be useful to system designers to calculate scoping values for the availability and repair intervals for their systems, and for probabilistic safety or risk analysts to assess fusion systems for safety of the public and the workers.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-94ID13223
• OSTI ID: 752571
• Report Number(s): INEEL/EXT--98-00892
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
AIRBORNE RELEASES
COMBUSTIBLE GASES
ENGINEERED SAFETY SYSTEMS
FAILURE RATE
FAILURES
FUSION SYSTEMS
MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT
MAGNETIC FUSION SAFETY
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
OXYGEN DEFICIENCY
PLASMA SHUTDOWN
REPAIR
REPAIR RATE
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFETY ANALYSIS
SCOPING VALUES
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS
TOXIC GAS
VACUUM CHAMBERS
VACUUM SYSTEMS