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The system design principles to ensure high safeguard system reliability in German 1300 MW KWU nuclear power plants are briefly described and illustrated. The special importance of these principles for preventing Common Cause Failure (CCF) / Multiple Related Failure (MRF) is underlined.
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KWU: Pressurized Water Reactor, Order No. K/10567–101, January 1982
Poucet, A., Amendola, A., and Cacciabue, P. C., “CCF-RBE: Common Cause Failure Reliability Benchmark Exercise”, EIJR 11054 EN, 1987
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Dörre, P., Schilling, R. (1989). Design Defences Against Common Cause/Multiple Related Failure. In: Amendola, A. (eds) Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment. ISPRA Courses on Reliability and Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0629-2_6
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