Objectives:
- To learn the basic notions and techniques of nuclear reliability
- To present elements of nuclear safety
- To understand the fundamentals of probabilistic safety analysis (PSA).
- To assess the overall quality of the PSA methodology
List of topics:
- Introduction to system reliability and the concept of risk
- Safety philosophy of the Belgian plants
- From deterministic to probabilistic safety studies
- Fault trees, event trees, minimum cut-sets and paths
- Systems with statistical and functional dependence
- Reference accidents (TMI, Chernobyl) and their impact on the PSA methodology
- Exploitation of PSA outcomes
- Towards an integrated approach to PSA
References
McCormick, N., Reliability and Risk Analysis - Methods and Nuclear Power Applications, Academic Press, New York, 1981.
Henley, E.J. and Kumamoto, H., Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1981.
Modarres, M., What Every Engineer Should Know about Reliability and Risk Analysis, Dekker Inc., New York, 1993.
Kumamoto, H., and Henley, E.J., Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientists, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001.
Bedford, T. and Cooke, R., Probabilistic Risk Analysis, Foundations and Methods, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001.
Amplitude and teaching methods:
- 1 t.m.
- Practical exercises: Risk-Spectrum or Aralia-Simtree in SCK•CEN