The Common Mode Failure Study Discipline

A Common Mode Failure (CMF) study is described which supports the design basis for the Reactor Protection System on a General Electric Boiling Water Reactor. Ground rules are formulated which restrict the study to functional CMFs applied one at a time to a reactor plant subjected to initiating trans...

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Published inIEEE transactions on nuclear science Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 594 - 598
Main Author Jacobs, I. M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.1970
Subjects
Condition monitoring
Design engineering
Electrical safety
Hardware
Inductors
Instruments
Jacobian matrices
Product safety
Protection
Reliability engineering
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Summary:A Common Mode Failure (CMF) study is described which supports the design basis for the Reactor Protection System on a General Electric Boiling Water Reactor. Ground rules are formulated which restrict the study to functional CMFs applied one at a time to a reactor plant subjected to initiating transients and accidents. Each outcome is traced to a stable condition and the results examined to determine that they are acceptable. CMF studies seem to parallel the development of Reliability studies and the results appear to be complimentary.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/TNS.1970.4325635