Title :
Common-Cause Failure Considerations in Predicting HTGR Cooling System Reliability
Author :
Fleming, Karl N. ; Hannaman, G.William
Author_Institution :
General Atomic Company//PO Box 81608//San Diego, CA 92138 USA
Abstract :
Probabilistic safety analyses of the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor are being performed by the General Atomic Company. The project is sponsored by the Energy Research and Development Administration and is known as Accident Initiation and Progression Analysis. Probabilistic methods are used to estimate the probability of failure of the HTGR cooling systems.
Keywords :
Coolants; Cooling; Failure analysis; Fault trees; Heat transfer; Inductors; Performance analysis; Power generation; Product safety; Reliability; Common-cause failure; Redundancy; Safety;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1976.5215031
