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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2016.30.3.079

Cable Functional Failure Time Evaluation for a Main Control Room Fire using Fire Dynamic Simulator  

Lim, Heok-Soon (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Corporations - Central Research Institute)
Kim, In-Hwan (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Corporations - Central Research Institute)
Kim, Myung-Su (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Corporations - Central Research Institute)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.30, no.3, 2016 , pp. 79-85 More about this Journal
Abstract
Serious electrical problems, such as shorts, ground faults, or circuits, often cause fire events in the fire proof zone of nuclear power plants. These would be directed to the loss of safe shutdown capabilities performed by safety-related systems and equipment. The fire event can be treated with the basic design principle that safety systems should maintain their functions with redundancy and independency. In the case of a cable fire in the main control room, operators cannot perform their mission properly and can misjudge the situation because of spurious operation, incorrect indication or instrument. These would deteriorate the plant capabilities of safety shutdown and result in disastrous conditions. Therefore, during a main control room fire, 5 minutes of operator action time is very important to operate the safety shutdown components. This paper describes the cable functional failure temperature criteria and conducted a cable functional failure time evaluation using Fire Dynamic Simulator to obtain the operator action time for a main control room fire.
Keywords
Fire; Cable fire; Cable functional failure temperature; Main control room; Nuclear power plant;
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