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Quantitative Evaluation of Common Cause Failures in High Safety-significant Safety-related Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
Han Bao, Hongbin Zhang, Tate Shorthill +2
Digital instrumentation and control (DIC) systems at nuclear power plants (NPPs) have many advantages over analog systems. They are proven to be more reliable, cheaper, and easier…
An Integrated Risk Assessment Process of Safety-Related Digital I&C Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
Hongbin Zhang, Han Bao, Tate Shorthill +1
Upgrading the existing analog instrumentation and control (IC) systems to state-of-the-art digital IC (DIC) systems will greatly benefit existing light-water reactors (LWRs). Howev…
A Redundancy-Guided Approach for the Hazard Analysis of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Advanced Nuclear Power Plants
Tate Shorthill, Han Bao, Hongbin Zhang +1
Digital instrumentation and control (I&C) upgrades are a vital research area for nuclear industry. Despite their performance benefits, deployment of digital I&C in nuclear power pl…