Reliability and Maintainability Data for Liquid Metal Cooling Systems
- Idaho National Laboratory
One of the coolants of interest for future fusion breeding blankets is lead-lithium. As a liquid metal it offers the advantages of high temperature operation for good station efficiency, low pressure, and moderate flow rate. This coolant is also under examination for use in test blanket modules to be used in the ITER international project. To perform reliability, availability, maintainability and inspectability (RAMI) assessment as well as probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of lead-lithium cooling systems, component failure rate data are needed to quantify the system models. RAMI assessment also requires repair time data and inspection time data. This paper presents a new survey of the data sets that are available at present to support RAMI and PSA quantification. Recommendations are given for the best data values to use when quantifying system models.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1239869
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-15-34097
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, Austin, Texas, 5/31/2015 - 6/4/2015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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