The use of PRA during the design phase of the PBMR

2003 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants - Proceedings of ICAPP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Van Graan, Henriette ^a   Serbanescu, Dan ^a   Eloff, Louis ^a  

^a Pebble Bed Module Reactor PRA Team Centurion Lake Buenavista Building ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION PRODUCTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DESIGN CHANGE; DESIGN PROCESS; PEBBLE BED MODULE REACTORS; PLANT CONTROL; PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; PRODUCT RELEASE; REACTOR PHYSICS; THERMOHYDRAULICS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84933178806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. Karl Fleming, Adrian George, Maurice Magugumela, "The role of PRA in the design and licensing of the Pebble bed Module Reactor" (2002).
2. PBMR LC170-013495-4660: "The basic principles and steps for the methodology to review design changes from the risk perspective (DesCqueRiT)"
3. Karl Fleming Memorandum - Comments on DesCqueRiT, PBMR, July 2002, KNF-TI-2
4. USNRC, July 1998 regulatory Guide 1.174 An approach for using PRA in Risk Informed decisions on plant specific Changes to the licensing basis" RG 1.174
5. USNRC, NUREG/CR-2300 PRA Procedures Guide. A guide to the Performance of Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants, Final report, January 1983
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7. IAEA Safety Series "Procedures for conducting Probabilistic safety Assessments of Nuclear Power Plants (Level 1) Safety Series 50-P-4
8. IAEA Safety Series "Procedures for Conducting Probabilistic safety Assessments of Nuclear power plants (level 2) Safety series No. 50-P-8
9. Dan Serbanescu, "A New Approach to Decision Making in Different Phases of PSA Studies", IAEA-SM-321/38, IAEA, Vienna, 3-7 June 1991, Symposium on the Use of Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Operational Safety
10. NEA/CSNI/R(2002)10June 2002, Proceedings of an International Workshop, Cadarache, France 4-6 March 2002, "Passive System Reliability - A Challenge to Reliability Engineering and Licensing of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants"
11. Dan Serbanescu, "Risk, Probability and Uncertainty in the calculations of HTGR", WANO Paris Center Workshop on the Applications of PSA, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa, 2-4 December