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Framework to model severe accident management guidelines into Level 2 probabilistic safety assessment of a nuclear power plant

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  • Cho, Jaehyun
  • Lee, Sang Hun
  • Kim, Jaewhan
  • Park, Seong Kyu

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Severe accident management guidelines (SAMG) play a significant role in mitigating severe accidents in nuclear power plants (NPPs), and thus the modeling of SAMG into Level 2 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) has become essential to more realistically quantify the safety of NPPs and the effectiveness of SAMG. This study developed a systematic framework to model SAMG into Level 2 PSA, in which SAMG event trees and fault trees are modeled to formulate SAMG in a probabilistic manner. Application results to the internal events of a real plant, the OPR-1000, showed that the inclusion of SAMG in the Level 2 PSA model led to not only a significant increase in the conditional containment intact probability, from 37 to 70%, but also a considerable decrease in NPP risk, namely by 44% compared to the case without SAMG. The method can be used for the estimation of the effectiveness of each mitigation strategy, as well as for the identification of the risk-significant factors regarding SAMG.

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  • Cho, Jaehyun & Lee, Sang Hun & Kim, Jaewhan & Park, Seong Kyu, 2022. "Framework to model severe accident management guidelines into Level 2 probabilistic safety assessment of a nuclear power plant," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:217:y:2022:i:c:s0951832021005743
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.108076
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