Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment: Proceedings of the ISPRA Course held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, 16–19 November 1987

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Treatment of Common Cause Failures. The Nordic Perspective....Pages 9-29
Classification of Multiple Related Failures....Pages 31-46
Design Defences Against Multiple Related Failures....Pages 47-70
Design-Related Defensive Measures Against Dependent Failures. ABB ATOM’s Approach....Pages 71-100
Design Defences Against Common Cause/Multiple Related Failure....Pages 101-106
Measures Taken at Design Level to Counter Common Cause Failures. A Few Comments Concerning the Approach of EDF....Pages 107-111
Analysis Procedures for Identification of MRF’s....Pages 113-129
Dependent Failure Modelling by Fault Tree Technique....Pages 131-143
Treatment of Multiple Related Failures by Markov Method....Pages 145-157
Parametric Models for Common Cause Failure Analysis....Pages 159-174
Estimation of Parameters of Common Cause Failure Models....Pages 175-203
Pitfalls in Common Cause Failure Data Evaluation....Pages 205-219
Experience and Results of the CCF-RBE....Pages 221-234
Analysis of CCF-Data — Identification the Experience from the Nordic Benchmark....Pages 235-241
Some Comments on CCF-Quantification the Experience from the Nordic Benchmark....Pages 243-256
Analysis of Common Cause Failures Based on Operating Experience : Possible Approaches and Results....Pages 257-276
Multiple Related Failures from the Nordic Operating Experience....Pages 277-288
The Use of Abnormal Event Data from Nuclear Power Reactors for Dependent Failure Analysis....Pages 289-302
MRF’s from the Analysis of Component Data....Pages 303-341
Back Matter....Pages 343-346