DocumentCode
1320963
Title
Reliability Analysis of a Nuclear Reactor Fuel Charging System
Author
Buzacott, John A.
Author_Institution
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Issue
2
fYear
1973
fDate
6/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
88
Lastpage
91
Abstract
A fuel charge/discharge system for a nuclear reactor with on-load fuel changing is considered. The system consists of two fuel charging (fc) machines which operate in parallel. When both fc machines have been down for more than 28 days the reactor becomes subcritical and shuts down spontaneously. Using conditional probability arguments and renewal theory it is shown how reliability measures of a two unit redundant system can be extended to obtain the expected frequency and duration of reactor shut-downs due to fc system failures.
Keywords
Automatic frequency control; Frequency estimation; Frequency measurement; Fuels; Inductors; Magnetic heads; Neutrons; Nuclear measurements; Nuclear power generation; Reliability theory;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1973.5216040
Filename
5216040
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