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Development of Reliability Evaluation System for I&C System Upgrade  

Chung, Hak-Young (한국수력원자력㈜ 원자력발전기술원 계측설비팀)
Kang, Hyeon-Tae (한국수력원자력㈜ 원자력발전기술원 계측설비팀)
Sung, Chan-Ho (한국수력원자력㈜ 원자력발전기술원 계측설비팀)
Publication Information
The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.56, no.10, 2007 , pp. 1852-1858 More about this Journal
Abstract
To Increase availability and to enhance the safety, the modernization of Instrumentation & Control (I&C) systems is considered. The extended use of the digital technology lets nuclear power plants(NPPs) to replace their old analog systems with some proven digital systems. To adapt digital equipment to plants effectively and systematically, however, there must be an essential prerequisite, which is to evaluate current I&C equipment. This paper shows a practical methodology to evaluate the current status and reliability of I&C systems of NPPs using Reliability Evaluation System(RES) before performing upgrades or replacements for systems. The proposed method was applied to KORI Unit 2. The proposed method shows the current status of operating I&C systems effectively for upgrading I&C systems.
Keywords
Reliability; Reliability Evaluation System(RES); I&C; Upgrade; Nuclear Power Plants(NPPs);
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