POTENTIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF COMMON CAUSE FAILURES AND HUMAN ERRORS IN EXISTING AND FUTURE POWER PLANTS

František Janíček - Ivan Daruľa - Martin Brezina

   At present time, the assessment of common cause failures is an important part of reliability and risk analysis. This paper deals with common cause failures, causes and mechanism of rising common cause failures in nuclear power plant systems. The paper presents a scheme and methods for evaluation of common cause failures in risk and reliability analyses in nuclear power plants. Reliability and risk analyses are very important for increasing the safety and reliability of nuclear power plant operation.

Keywords: reliability, common cause failures, human errors

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