Common-Cause Failure Event Insights: Pumps (NUREG/CR-6819, INEEL/EXT-99-00613, Volume 3)
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Publication Information
Manuscript Completed: March 2003
Date Published: May 2003
Prepared by:
T.E. Wierman, INEEL
D.M. Rasmuson, NRC
N.B. Stockton, INEEL
Risk & Reliability Assessment Department
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company
P.O. Box 1625
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415-3850
T.R. Wolf, NRC Project Manager
Prepared for:
Division of Risk Analysis and Applications
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001
NRC Job Code Y6194
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Abstract
This report documents a study performed on the set of common-cause failures (CCF) of pumps from 1980 to 2000. The data studied here were derived from the NRC CCF database, which is based on U.S. commercial nuclear power plant event data. This report is the result of an in-depth review of the pump CCF data and presents several insights about the pump CCF data. The objective of this document is to look beyond the CCF parameter estimates that can be obtained from the CCF data to gain further understanding of why CCF events occur and what measures may be taken to prevent, or at least mitigate the effect of, pump CCF events. This report presents quantitative presentation of the pump CCF data and discussion of some engineering aspects of the pump events.
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