Citation

Bley DC, Reuland WB. Reliab. Eng. 1987; 17(4): 241-253.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(87)90090-4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A process flow model of procedures performed during typical plant outages has been applied to supplement the usual accident sequence initiating events, such as loss of offsite power, in a probabilistic risk assessment model of a nuclear plant. This method models the time-dependent plant conditions and activities not encountered during power operations. The advantages of this method, a brief description of the model and a discussion of the resulting accident sequences for a shutdown plant are presented.