Title :
Dependability assessment of a computerized nuclear protection system
Author :
Allain-Morin, G. ; Pourret, O.
Author_Institution :
Direction des Etudes et Recherches, Electr. de France, Clamart, France
Abstract :
The paper discusses the assessment of a typical quadruple modular redundant nuclear protection system, DIPS. This assessment proved difficult for several reasons, including: complex fault-tolerant architecture, multistate components, large number of components, and because some approximations were necessary to compute DIPS unavailability with a method using standard dependability tools. The authors present the results of the study in terms of the average DIPS down time over a one-year period.
Keywords :
fission reactor safety; nuclear engineering computing; nuclear power; power engineering computing; power plants; protection; safety-critical software; software fault tolerance; average DIPS down time; complex fault-tolerant architecture; computerized nuclear protection system; dependability assessment; dependability tools; multistate components; quadruple modular redundant nuclear protection system; Analog computers; Computerized instrumentation; Control systems; Electronics packaging; Fault tolerant systems; Power generation; Power system modeling; Power system protection; Safety; Sensor phenomena and characterization;
Conference_Titel :
Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1998. Digest of Papers. Twenty-Eighth Annual International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Munich, Germany
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8470-4
DOI :
10.1109/FTCS.1998.689499
