Published 1993 | Version v1
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Impact of shutdown risk on risk-based assessment of technical specifications

Creators

  • 1. EDF/R ampersand D Division, Clamart (France)

Description

This paper describes the current work performed by the Research and Development Division of EDF concerning risk-based assessment of Operating Technical Specifications (OTS). One of the objectives of the OTS is to determine what actions have to be taken when a component or set of components is unavailable. In addition, EDF conducted the project PSA 1300 (level 1 Probabilistic Safety Assessment of the Paluel nuclear power plant). One of the main lessons of the PSA 1300 is that shutdown states largely contribute to the core damage risk. As a result, the following question becomes relevant: does the shutdown really lead to minimizing the increase of risk due to the unavailability of a safety-related component?

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Nuclear Society, Inc.
Imprint Place
La Grange Park, IL (United States)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the sixteenth reactor operations international topical meeting
Imprint Pagination
436 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 48-55.

Conference

Title
16. reactor operations international topical meeting.
Dates
15-18 Aug 1993.
Place
Long Island, NY (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
26016993
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
AVAILABILITY; CONFIGURATION CONTROL; PALUEL-1 REACTOR; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR SHUTDOWN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIFICATIONS
Descriptors DEC
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTORS; SAFETY; SHUTDOWN; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-930807--.