• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.271-278
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• 2011

When performing fire PSA in a nuclear power plant, an event mapping method, using an internal event PSA model, is widely used to reduce the resources used by fire PSA model development. Feasible initiating events and component failure events due to fire are identified to transform the fault tree (FT) for an internal event PSA into one for a fire PSA using the event mapping method. A surrogate event or damage term method is used to condition the FT of the internal PSA. The surrogate event or the damage term plays the role of flagging whether the system/component in a fire compartment is damaged or not, depending on the fire being initiated from a specified compartment. These methods usually require explicit states of all compartments to be modeled in a fire area. Fire event scenarios, when using explicit identification, such as surrogate or damage terms, have two problems: (1) there is no consideration of multiple fire propagation beyond a single propagation to an adjacent compartment, and (2) there is no consideration of simultaneous fire propagations in which an initiating fire event is propagated to multiple paths simultaneously. The present paper suggests a fire propagation equation to identify all possible fire event scenarios for an explicitly treated fire event scenario in the fire PSA. Also, a method for separating fire events was developed to make all fire events a set of mutually exclusive events, which can facilitate arithmetic summation in fire risk quantification. A simple example is given to confirm the applicability of the present method for a $2{\times}3$ rectangular fire area. Also, a feasible asymptotic approach is discussed to reduce the computational burden for fire risk quantification.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.2263-2275
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• 2023

In general, an internal fire events probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) model is quantified by modifying the pre-existing internal event PSA model. Because many pieces of equipment or cables can be damaged by a fire, a single fire event can lead to multiple internal events PSA initiating events (IEs). Consequently, when the fire events PSA model is quantified, inappropriate minimal cut sets (MCSs), such as duplicate MCSs, may be generated. This paper shows that single quantification of a hypothetical single-top fire event PSA model may generate the following four types of inappropriate MCSs: duplicate MCSs, MCSs subsumed by other MCSs, nonsense MCSs, and MCSs with over-counted fire frequencies. Among the inappropriate MCSs, the nonsense MCSs should be addressed first because they can interfere with the right interpretation of the other MCSs and prevent the resolution of the issues related to the other inappropriate MCSs. In addition, we propose a resolution process for each of the issues caused by these inappropriate MCSs and suggest an overall procedure for resolving them. The results of this study will contribute to the understanding and resolution of the inappropriate MCSs that may appear in the quantification of fire events PSA models.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.125-133
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 홍수시나리오에 의해 발생한 제방붕괴에서 불확실성을 포함한 확률홍수위험지도를 산정하였다. 불확실성을 포함한 극치수문시나리오와 그에 따른 홍수위가 산정된 선행연구자료를 활용하였고 이에 따라 제방붕괴 예측지점을 산정하였다. 단순한 조건에 따른 일률적인 파제폭을 제시하는 경험식과 지반공학적 복합요소들에 대한 불확실성을 고려한 물리적 기반의 수치모의 방식을 결합하여 파제폭을 산정하였다. 이에 따라 확률론적 파제유입량을 결정하였고, 신뢰도를 기반으로 100회 모의수행을 통한 2차원 제내지 침수해석을 실시하여 확률침수심도를 작성하였다. 이를 통해 홍수위험지도 작성기법을 기반으로 확률침수심도와 결합하여 확률홍수위험지도를 작성하였다. 본 연구결과는 제내지의 비상대처계획(EAP)의 정량적 근거자료로 보다 경제적, 안정적인 설계지표 제시하는데 효과적일 것으로 기대된다.