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A reduction in the incidence of unusual initiating events and total system failures observed in the Accident Sequence Precursor program indicates an improvement in the risk-related performance of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants during 1969–94. However, a number of historic system failures are inconsistent with PRA models, an indication of the need for more careful consideration of operational events when developing these models.
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Minarick, J.W. (1996). Accident Sequence Precursor Lessons for 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_37
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