Published December 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Suggestion for system improvement of the AP1000 based on PSA results

  • 1. China Nuclear Design Company Shanghai Branch, Shanghai (China)

Description

Based on the APlOOO level one Probabilistic Safety Assessment, the vulnerability of the normal residual heat removal system could lead to the high contribution of the initiating event of SI-LB. The Improvement of the normal residual heat removal system has been made. A fault tree and related event tree model of the RNS are rebuilt by the Probabilistic Safety Assessment methodology; the RNS system reliability and the contribution of the improvement on the CDF are analyzed. The results show that after the improvement of the RNS, the contribution of the SI-LB is greatly decreased and the core damage frequency is reduced by 29.1%. (authors)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chinese Journal of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Journal Volume
35
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 723-728
ISSN
0258-0918

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Notes
5 figs., 2 tabs., 4 refs.