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Modeling Rare Events: The Frequencies of Fires in Nuclear Power Plants

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Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis

Part of the book series: Advances in Risk Analysis ((AIRA,volume 2))

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Distributions for the frequency of fires in light water reactor (LWR) compartments and major components are derived. The plant-to-plant variability is explicitly included and its effects are compared to models where all the data are lumped. The data are collected from information contained in Nuclear Power Experience (NPE).

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  1. Pickard, Lowe, and Garrick, Inc., 17840 Skypark Boulevard, Irvine, California, 92714, USA

    M. Kazarians

  2. School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    G. Apostolakis

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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

    Ray A. Waller

  2. U.S. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA

    Vincent T. Covello

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Kazarians, M., Apostolakis, G. (1984). Modeling Rare Events: The Frequencies of Fires in Nuclear Power Plants. In: Waller, R.A., Covello, V.T. (eds) Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis. Advances in Risk Analysis, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1818-8_2

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