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Application of Expanded Event Trees combined with uncertainty analysis methodologies

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  • Queral, Cesar
  • Fernández-Cosials, Kevin
  • Zugazagoitia, Eneko
  • Paris, Carlos
  • Magan, Javier
  • Mendizabal, Rafael
  • Posada, Jose

Abstract

During the last decades, the safety analysis of nuclear power plants, have been shifting from conservative models and hypotheses to Best Estimate. Within this trend, the different safety analyses can be categorized depending on their associated conservatisms. The approach that includes Expanded Event Trees together with Best Estimate model and conditions plus uncertainty avoiding conservatisms in system availability can be referred as Extended BEPU (EBEPU). In this sense, an Extended BEPU safety analysis relies on Expanded Event Trees and Best Estimate models to study an accidental sequence.

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  • Queral, Cesar & Fernández-Cosials, Kevin & Zugazagoitia, Eneko & Paris, Carlos & Magan, Javier & Mendizabal, Rafael & Posada, Jose, 2021. "Application of Expanded Event Trees combined with uncertainty analysis methodologies," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:205:y:2021:i:c:s0951832020307468
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2020.107246
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