Assessment of fire vulnerability for nuclear power plant safety systems by combining fault- and success-oriented logic with physical models

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-216

  Argirov, Julian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FIRE VULNERABILITY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY SYSTEMS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031988634     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00147-6     Document Type: Article

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