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The Wolf Creek Generating Station Fire PRA was completed in 1994 and 1995 by Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation with support from NUS Corporation. The Fire PRA was performed using an initial fire area screening employing the methodology, followed by the application of Fire PRA techniques on unscreened fire areas. The results of the Fire PRA showed that switchgear fires were the dominant fire scenario for Wolf Creek. The results, however, were considered conservative, due to the lack of a vigorous and accurate method for treating electrical cabinet fires, including propagation within a cabinet, propagation through cabinet penetrations, treatment of spurious valve operation and the ability of fire suppression to extinguish a cabinet fire.
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Henneke, D.W., Luckert, V. (1996). Insights from the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station Fire PRA. In: Cacciabue, P.C., Papazoglou, I.A. (eds) Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management ’96. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3409-1_30
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