Risk Evaluation for a General Electric BWR,Effects of Fire Protection System Actuation on Safety-Related Equipment:Evaluation of Generic Issue 57 (NUREG/CR-5791, SAND91-1536)
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Manuscript Completed: October 1992
Date Published: December 1992
Prepared by:
J. Lambright, S. Ross, S. Daniel
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-5800
Operated by Sandia Corporation
E. Klamerus (Subcontractor)
Science and Engineering Associates, Inc.
6100 Uptown Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110
Prepared for:
Division of Safety Issue Resolution
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001
NRC FIN L-1334
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Abstract
Nuclear power plants have experienced actuations of fire protection systems (FPSs) under conditions for which these systems were not intended to actuate. They have also experienced advertent actuations with the presence of a fire. These actuations have often damaged nearby plant equipment.
A review of past occurrences of both types of such events on nuclear power plant safety, and a cost-benefit analysis of potential corrective measures, have been performed. Thirteen different scenarios leading to actuation of fire protection systems due to a variety of causes were identified. These scenarios range from inadvertent actuation caused by human errors to hardware failures and include seismic root causes and seismic/fire interactions. A quantification of these thirteen scenarios, where applicable, was performed on a BWR4/MKI. This report estimates the contribution of FPS actuations to core damage frequency and risk, proposes physical modifications to reduce the risk from the dominant contributors, and estimates the values and impacts of the proposed modifications.
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