Safety assessment for the passive system of the nuclear power plants (NPPs) using safety margin estimation

Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1799-1804

  Woo, Tae Ho ^a   Lee, Un Chul ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anticipated transient without scram; Passive system; Probabilistic safety assessment; Very high temperature reactor

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FUZZY SETS; GAS PLANTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ANTICIPATED TRANSIENT WITHOUT SCRAMS; FAILURE FREQUENCY; GAS-COOLED; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; MASS FLOW RATE; NATURAL CIRCULATION; NON-LINEARITY; OPERATIONAL DATA; PASSIVE SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SAFETY MARGIN; STATISTICAL DATAS; STORED ENERGY; VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 77949275071     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.12.034     Document Type: Article

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