Insights About Emergency Diesel Generator Failures from the USNRC's Common Cause Failure Database

Conference · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:7568

Mosleh, A ^[1]; Rasmuson, D ^[2]; Marshall, F; Wierman, T ^[3]

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1. Univ. of Maryland, MD (US)
2. USNRC (US)
3. INEEL (US)

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sponsored development of a database of common cause failure events for use in commercial nuclear power plant risk and reliability analyses. This paper presents a summary of the results from analysis of the emergency diesel generator data from the database. The presentation is limited to the overall insights, the design and manufacturing cause and the instrumentation and control sub-system.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-94ID13223
• OSTI ID: 7568
• Report Number(s): INEEL/CON-99-00473; TRN: US0101795
• Resource Relation: Conference: Probabilistic Safety Assessment 1999, Washington, DC (US), 08/01/1999--08/01/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1 Aug 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
DIESEL ENGINES
ELECTRIC GENERATORS
FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
MANUFACTURING
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
RELIABILITY
RISK ASSESSMENT
US NRC
RISK AND RELIABILITY ANALYSES
EMERGENCY DIESEL GENERATOR
INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL
DEPENDENT FAILURE
SHARED CAUSE
COUPLING FACTORS
COMMON CAUSE FAILURE EVENTS