Dependability Analysis of Fault Detection Function and Reliability of Reactor Protection System

원자로보호계통의 고장검출기능과 신뢰도의 상관관계 분석

Reliability is an important issue on the digital reactor protection system. This paper presents a Quantitative reliability evaluation method to find out an improvement effect of availability for the digital control module with a fault detection function. It is a reliability evaluation model which considers only the electronics parts ocurring a spurious reactor trip by the FMEA(Failure Mode Effect Analysis). Applying the previous and present methods to the reactor protection system, the availability factors are evaluated and compared.