Published December 2007 | Version v1
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Probability safety assessment for the extension of allowed outage time of emergency diesel generator in Daya Bay NPP

Creators

  • 1. School of Management of Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)
  • 2. Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Company, Shenzhen (China)

Description

The article applies the Probability Safety Assessment approach to analyze the risk impact of extension of allowed outage time of emergency diesel generator in Daya Bay NPP and adopts the risk-acceptance criteria used by NRC to evaluate changes to the licensing basis. The assessment results show that the risk impact is acceptable to increase the emergency diesel generator allowed outage time from 3 days to 14 days. (authors)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chinese Journal of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 349-354
ISSN
0258-0918

INIS

Country of Publication
China
Country of Input or Organization
China
INIS RN
41120407
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCIDENTS; DAYA BAY-1 REACTOR; DAYA BAY-2 REACTOR; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; EMERGENCY PLANS; HAZARDS; LICENSING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EQUIPMENT; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

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Notes
3 figs., 5 tabs., 9 refs.