Building confidence in the reliability assessment of thermal-hydraulic passive systems

E. Zio and N. Pedroni

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009, vol. 94, issue 2, 268-281

Abstract: Thermal-hydraulic (T-H) passive systems play a crucial role in the development of future solutions for nuclear power plant technologies. A fundamental issue still to be resolved is the quantification of the reliability of such systems.

Keywords: Thermal-hydraulic passive system; Reliability assessment; Monte-Carlo sampling; Uncertainties; Confidence intervals; Binomial distribution; Bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.006

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