Open AccessLight Water Reactor Sustainability Program FY13 Status Update for EPRI - RISMC Collaboration
Author(s) -
Curtis Smith
Publication year - 2013
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1115616
Subject(s) - margin (machine learning) , sustainability , nuclear power , reliability (semiconductor) , electric power , engineering , nuclear power plant , risk management , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , business , power (physics) , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , nuclear physics , biology , finance
The purpose of the Risk Informed Safety Margin Characterization (RISMC) Pathway research and development (R&D) is to support plant decisions for risk-informed margins management with the aim to improve economics, reliability, and sustain safety of current NPPs. Goals of the RISMC Pathway are twofold: (1) Develop and demonstrate a risk-assessment method coupled to safety margin quantification that can be used by NPP decision makers as part of their margin recovery strategies. (2) Create an advanced "RISMC toolkit" that enables more accurate representation of NPP safety margin. In order to carry out the R&D needed for the Pathway, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in order to focus on applications of interest to the U.S. nuclear power industry. This report documents the collaboration activities performed between INL and EPRI during FY2013