Article ID: | iaor20063106 |
Country: | South Korea |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 63 |
End Page Number: | 71 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2005 |
Journal: | Journal of the Korean ORMS Society |
Authors: | Baek Jang Hyun, Seo Jae Young, Na Man Gyun |
Keywords: | nuclear power |
In the field of nuclear reactor safety study, common cause failures (CCFs) became significant contributors to system failure probability and core damage frequency in most probabilistic risk assessments. However, it is hard to estimate the reliability of such a system, because of the dependency of components caused by CCFs. In order to analyze the system, we propose an analytic method that can find the parameters with lack of raw data. This study adopts the shock model in which the failure probability increases as the shock is cumulated. We use two-step Expectation and Maximization (EM) algorithm to find the unknown parameters. In order to verify the analysis result, we perform the simulation under same environment. This approach might be helpful to build the defensive strategy for the CCFs.