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Diversity in Computerized Reactor Protection Systems by H.D. Fischer; L. Piel is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Diversity in Computerized Reactor Protection Systems about?
Based on engineering judgement, the most important measures to increase the independency of redundant trains of a computerized safety instrumentation and control system (I&C) in a nuclear power plant are evaluated with respect to practical applications. This paper will contribute to an objective discussion on the necessary and justifiable arrangement of diversity in a computerized safety I&C system. Important conclusions are: (i) diverse equipment may be used to control dependent failures only if measures necessary for designing, licensing, and operating a computerized safety I&C system homogeneous in equipment are neither technically nor economically feasible; (ii) the considerable large operating experience in France with a non-diverse equipment digital reactor protection system does not call for equipment diversity. Although there are no generally accepted methods, the licensing authority is still required to take into account dependent failures in a probabilistic safety analysis; (ii) the frequency of postulated initiating events implies which I&C functionality should be implemented on diverse equipment. Using non-safety I&C equipment in addition to safety I&C equipment is attr
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- Author
- H.D. Fischer; L. Piel
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0951-8320)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)