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Comparison of resilience vs traditional probabilistic safety assessment for nuclear power facilities

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posted on 2023-03-03, 14:16 authored by Rundong (Derek) Yan, Sarah DunnettSarah Dunnett, John Andrews

The safety of nuclear power facilities has consistently been of concern to the public as well as the scientific community due to the potentially catastrophic consequences of nuclear accidents. In this paper, a Petri net modelling-based resilience methodology developed by the authors is compared with the traditional Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) methodologies namely Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA) used for nuclear engineering risk assessment. A station blackout (SBO) accident is used as a case study to facilitate the comparison. The advantages and drawbacks of the two methods are compared and conclusions are drawn as to the best of these two options for future exploitation in ensuring the safety of nuclear reactors.

Funding

A Resilience Modelling Framework for Improved Nuclear Safety (NuRes)

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022)

Source

32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022)

Publisher

Research Publishing, Singapore

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© ESREL2022 Organizers

Publication date

2022-08-28

Copyright date

2022

ISBN

978-981-18-5183-4

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Maria Chiara Leva; Edoardo Patelli; Luca Podofillini; Simon Wilson

Location

Dublin, Ireland

Event dates

28th August 2022 - 1st September 2022

Depositor

Dr Sarah Dunnett. Deposit date: 2 March 2023

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