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A Methodology for Seismic Risk Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants
Author(s) -
Kaplan Stan,
Perla Harold F.,
Bley Dennis C.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1983.tb00118.x
Subject(s) - fragility , nuclear power plant , fault tree analysis , induced seismicity , event (particle physics) , reliability engineering , component (thermodynamics) , computation tree logic , key (lock) , nuclear power , process (computing) , forensic engineering , engineering , computer science , environmental science , model checking , algorithm , civil engineering , physics , nuclear physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics , operating system
This methodology begins by quantifying the fragility of all key components and structures in the plant. By means of the logic encoded in the plant event trees and fault trees, the component fragilities are combined to form fragilities for the occurrence of plant damage states or release categories. Combining these, in turn, with the seismicity curves yields the frequencies of those states or releases. Uncertainty is explicitly included at each step of the process.