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Nuclear power plant reliability database management

Abstract

In the framework of the development of a probabilistic safety project on site (notion of living PSA), Saint Laurent des Eaux NPP implements a specific EDF reliability database. The main goals of this project at Saint Laurent des Eaux are: to expand risk analysis and to constitute an effective local basis of thinking about operating safety by requiring the participation of all departments of a power plant: analysis of all potential operating transients, unavailability consequences... that means to go further than a simple culture of applying operating rules; to involve nuclear power plant operators in experience feedback and its analysis, especially by following up behaviour of components and of safety functions; to allow plant safety managers to outline their decisions facing safety authorities for notwithstanding, preventive maintenance programme, operating incident evaluation. To hit these goals requires feedback data, tools, techniques and development of skills. The first step is to obtain specific reliability data on the site. Raw data come from plant maintenance management system which processes all maintenance activities and keeps in memory all the records of component failures and maintenance activities. Plant specific reliability data are estimated with a Bayesian model which combines these validated raw data with corporate  More>>
Authors:
Meslin, Th; [1]  Aufort, P
  1. Electricite de France (EDF), 41 - Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux (France)
Publication Date:
Apr 01, 1996
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
EDF-96-NB-00163
Reference Number:
SCA: 210200; PA: AIX-28:031093; EDB-97:054324; NTS-97:012113; SN: 97001765456
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1996
Subject:
21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; DATA BASE MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; FEEDBACK; REACTOR MAINTENANCE
OSTI ID:
454994
Research Organizations:
Electricite de France (EDF), 41 - Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux (France)
Country of Origin:
France
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE97620727; TRN: FR9701791031093
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE97620727
Submitting Site:
FRN
Size:
10 p.
Announcement Date:
Apr 17, 1997

Citation Formats

Meslin, Th, and Aufort, P. Nuclear power plant reliability database management. France: N. p., 1996. Web.
Meslin, Th, & Aufort, P. Nuclear power plant reliability database management. France.
Meslin, Th, and Aufort, P. 1996. "Nuclear power plant reliability database management." France.
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title = {Nuclear power plant reliability database management}
author = {Meslin, Th, and Aufort, P}
abstractNote = {In the framework of the development of a probabilistic safety project on site (notion of living PSA), Saint Laurent des Eaux NPP implements a specific EDF reliability database. The main goals of this project at Saint Laurent des Eaux are: to expand risk analysis and to constitute an effective local basis of thinking about operating safety by requiring the participation of all departments of a power plant: analysis of all potential operating transients, unavailability consequences... that means to go further than a simple culture of applying operating rules; to involve nuclear power plant operators in experience feedback and its analysis, especially by following up behaviour of components and of safety functions; to allow plant safety managers to outline their decisions facing safety authorities for notwithstanding, preventive maintenance programme, operating incident evaluation. To hit these goals requires feedback data, tools, techniques and development of skills. The first step is to obtain specific reliability data on the site. Raw data come from plant maintenance management system which processes all maintenance activities and keeps in memory all the records of component failures and maintenance activities. Plant specific reliability data are estimated with a Bayesian model which combines these validated raw data with corporate generic data. This approach allow to provide reliability data for main components modelled in PSA, to check the consistency of the maintenance program (RCM), to verify hypothesis made at the design about component reliability. A number of studies, related to components reliability as well as decision making process of specific incident risk evaluation have been carried out. This paper provides also an overview of the process management set up on site from raw database to specific reliability database in compliance with established corporate objectives. (authors). 4 figs.}
place = {France}
year = {1996}
month = {Apr}
}