R.A Bari

TL;DR: A methodology for reliability allocation in nuclear power plants, which determines reliability characteristics of reactor systems, subsystems, and components that are consistent with a set of top-level performance criteria such as the likelihood of core damage, adverse health effects, and associated economics is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the technical feasibility of allocating reliability and risk to reactor systems, subsystems, components, operations, and structures is investigated, and a methodology is discussed which identifies top level risk indices as objective functions and plant-specific performance variables as decision variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the technical feasibility of allocating reliability to nuclear power plant systems, subsystems, components, and structures is discussed, where a set of objective functions or safety variables has been defined on a global basis for a class of nuclear power plants.