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http://dx.doi.org/10.14248/JKOSSE.2021.17.2.082

Systems Engineering Process Approach to the Probabilistic Safety Assessment for a Spent Fuel Pool of a Nuclear Power Plant  

Choi, Jin Tae (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Cha, Woo Chang (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering / v.17, no.2, 2021 , pp. 82-90 More about this Journal
Abstract
The spent fuel pool (SFP) of a nuclear power plant functions to store the spent fuel. The spent fuel pool is designed to properly remove the decay heat generated from the spent fuel. If the cooling function is lost and proper operator action is not taken, the spent fuel in the storage pool can be damaged. Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) is a safety evaluation method that can evaluate the risk of a large and complex system. So far, the probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants has been mainly performed on the reactor. This study defined the requirements and the functional architecture for the probabilistic safety assessment of the spent fuel pool (SFP-PSA) by applying the systems engineering process. And, a systematic and efficient methodology was defined according to the architecture.
Keywords
Systems Engineering; Probabilistic Safety Assessment; Spent Fuel Pool; Nuclear Power Plant;
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