Citation

Welsh CR, Lundberg PK. Reliab. Eng. 1980; 1(1): 59-68.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(80)90015-3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper describes the reliability techniques used to estimate the risk of fission product release from accidents caused by faults in the rod control system of a pressurized water reactor.

These techniques include: a three-level reliability assessment using a functional event tree and two levels of fault tree to assess functional and system's reliability, an operator response model using event trees and a method of using the structure function of a reliability model to investigate possible common mode failure interactions.