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    The document discusses analyzing the safety of nuclear power plant systems using fault tree analysis. It describes a system where an exothermic reaction takes place in a vessel cooled by a pump. The operator can increase pump speed using a controller if needed. The task is to draw a fault tree with "Vessel Burst" as the top event, considering possible basic failures like of sensors, controllers, valves, pipes and operator error, and quantify the tree using provided failure probabilities.

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    The document discusses analyzing the safety of nuclear power plant systems using fault tree analysis. It describes a system where an exothermic reaction takes place in a vessel cooled by a pump. The operator can increase pump speed using a controller if needed. The task is to draw a fault tree with "Vessel Burst" as the top event, considering possible basic failures like of sensors, controllers, valves, pipes and operator error, and quantify the tree using provided failure probabilities.

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    Safety of Nuclear Power Plants Tutorial - Fault Tree Analysis Due: April 17th, 2012

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    The document discusses analyzing the safety of nuclear power plant systems using fault tree analysis. It describes a system where an exothermic reaction takes place in a vessel cooled by a pump. The operator can increase pump speed using a controller if needed. The task is to draw a fault tree with "Vessel Burst" as the top event, considering possible basic failures like of sensors, controllers, valves, pipes and operator error, and quantify the tree using provided failure probabilities.

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    Safety of Nuclear Power Plants

    Tutorial - Fault Tree Analysis


    Due: April 17th, 2012

    Description of the system

    • An exothermic reaction takes place in a vessel.

    • The cooling of the vessel controls the reaction and the end products.

    • In case of an increased exothermic reaction, the operator can increase the speed of the pump
    using the controller.

    • Under design conditions, this measure suffices to avoid vessel burst.

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    Your task is to help the maintenance personnel to draw a failure tree considering "Vessel Burst"
    as the top event and quantify this tree. You may assume following probabilities:

    Failure of sensor 0.0001 Failure of 0.001 Failure of 0.01


    controller valve
    Failure of heat 0.001 Failure of 0.0001 Loss of 0.01
    exchanger pipe medium/water
    Operator 0.0001 Tank break 1E(-6)
    failure

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