Reliability Assessment of Passive Safety Systems for Nuclear Energy Applications: State-of-the-Art and Open Issues

Francesco Di Maio, Nicola Pedroni, Barnabás Tóth, Luciano Burgazzi and Enrico Zio
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Francesco Di Maio: Energy Department, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy
Nicola Pedroni: Dipartimento di Energia, Politecnico di Torino, 10121 Turin, Italy
Barnabás Tóth: NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute Ltd., 1121 Budapest, Hungary
Luciano Burgazzi: ENEA Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, L’energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, 40121 Bologna, Italy
Enrico Zio: Energy Department, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-17

Abstract: Passive systems are fundamental for the safe development of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) technology. The accurate assessment of their reliability is crucial for their use in the nuclear industry. In this paper, we present a review of the approaches and procedures for the reliability assessment of passive systems. We complete the work by discussing the pending open issues, in particular with respect to the need of novel sensitivity analysis methods, the role of empirical modelling and the integration of passive safety systems assessment in the (static/dynamic) Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) framework.

Keywords: reliability assessment; Probabilistic Safety Assessment; passive safety systems; nuclear power plants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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