Published August 1, 1999 | Version v1
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Insights About Emergency Diesel Generator Failures from the USNRC's Common Cause Failure Database

Creators

  • 1. Univ. of Maryland, MD (United States)
  • 2. USNRC (United States)
  • 3. INEEL (United States)

Description

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

Availability note (English)

Available from INIS in electronic form; Also available from OSTI as DE00007568; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7568-TYGi0P/webviewable/

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Identifiers

URL
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7568-TYGi0P/webviewable/;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
10 p.
Report number
INEEL/CON--99-00473

Conference

Title
Probabilistic Safety Assessment 1999
Dates
1 Aug 1999
Place
Washington, DC (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
32028717
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
DESIGN; DIESEL ENGINES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; US NRC
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENGINES; EQUIPMENT; HEAT ENGINES; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; SYSTEM FAILURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; US ORGANIZATIONS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC07-94ID13223
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)