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ATWS: a reappraisal. Part II. Evaluation of societal risks due to reactor protection system failure. Volume 2. BWR fault tree evaluation

R.C. Erdmann, Alexander García-Aristizábal, F. L. Leverenz, E.T. Rumble

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This document is the second volume of a two-volume study concerning potential risk due to reactor protection system (RPS) failure in a BWR. It contains a detailed description of the re-evaluation and expansion of the WASH-1400 BWR RPS fault tree.

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Key concepts: Fault tree analysis, Volume (thermodynamics), Nuclear engineering, Reliability engineering, Tree (set theory), Risk analysis (engineering), Engineering, Business