Resilience in the context of nuclear safety engineering

Rundong Yan; Silvia Tolo; Sarah Dunnett; John Andrews; Edoardo Patelli

doi:10.1109/RAMS48030.2020.9153717

Resilience in the context of nuclear safety engineering

Rundong Yan, Silvia Tolo, Sarah Dunnett, John Andrews, Edoardo Patelli

Civil And Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

The safety and reliability of critical infrastructures is a key challenge in modern societies. This is all the more true when referring to the nuclear power industry, due to the rigid safety requirements on the one hand and the growing complexity of new systems on the other. The current study investigates the potential of a resilience engineering approach in dealing with current and future challenges in the context of nuclear reactor safety. The efficiency of several resilience metrics for capturing systems' performance in the case of accidents are discussed, and a novel framework for resilience analysis of nuclear reactor is proposed. The overall aim of this work is to provide computational and theoretical tools for resilience evaluation, paving the way for its application in the nuclear industry.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2020
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728136899
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS48030.2020.9153717
Publication status	Published - 27 Jan 2020
Event	2020 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2020 - Palm Springs, United States Duration: 27 Jan 2020 → 30 Jan 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
Volume	2020-January
ISSN (Print)	0149-144X

Conference

Conference	2020 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Palm Springs
Period	27/01/20 → 30/01/20

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of EPSRC through grant EP/R021759/1, part of the UK-India Civil Nuclear Collaboration program

Keywords

natural hazards
nuclear power
petri nets
resilience
simulation
coolants
critical infrastructures
fission reactor safety
power generation reliability
accidents
nuclear power plants
accident prevention
nuclear reactor accidents
reliability

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