Development of a database system for shutdown and abnormal events of nuclear power plants in Korea

To perform accident analysis (including probabilistic safety analysis) or performance analysis that are requisite for the design of nuclear power plants, events both that have taken place and that have a possibility to be realized have to be classified based on initiating frequencies of them. Up to now, event initiating frequency data obtained from operating experience of foreign countries (especially for U.S.) have been used because the amount of domestic operating experience data are very small. However it is indispensable to collect/analysis domestic operating experience data because these initiating frequencies obtained from operating experience of foreign countries may be different obtained from domestic operating experience. Therefore, not only to manage collected domestic operating experience data efficiently but also to retrieve valuable information including initiating frequencies of events, KTRIP program has been developed in cooperation with KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) and KOPEC (Korea Electric Power Company)