The development of micro and small modular reactor in the future energy market

S Tan, S Cheng, K Wang, X Liu, H Cheng… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Micro and Small Modular Reactor (MSMR) is an emerging energy technology that meets the
requirements of market demand, safety, efficiency, and sustainability. This paper …

Quantitative evaluation of common cause failures in high safety-significant safety-related digital instrumentation and control systems in nuclear power plants

H Bao, H Zhang, T Shorthill, E Chen… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital instrumentation and control (DI&C) systems at nuclear power plants (NPPs) have
many advantages over analog systems. They are proven to be more reliable, cheaper, and …

An Integrated Framework for Risk Assessment of High Safety Significant Safety-related Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants …

H Bao, T Shorthill, E Chen, J Park, S Zhang… - 2022 - osti.gov
This report documents the activities performed by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) during
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 for the US Department of Energy (DOE) Light Water Reactor …

Applying priority-informed STPA to a nuclear I&C system

J Berger, R Tiusanen, H Kothalawala… - 2024 IEEE 29th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The transition from analog to digital instrumentation and control systems in nuclear power
plants introduces increased complexity, and functionality and consequently new types of …

Replacement Strategy for Aging Nuclear Power Instrumentation and Control Equipment Based on Life Margin

Y Chen, Y Li, Y Xie, Z Chen, J Li - Nuclear Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The instrumentation and control (I&C) equipment in nuclear power plants gradually ages
and becomes obsolete with increased operation time. Its performance deteriorates, and the …

Application of Orthogonal Defect Classification for Software Reliability Analysis

E Chen, H Bao, T Shorthill, C Elks… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The modernization of existing and new nuclear power plants with digital instrumentation and
control systems (DI&C) is a recent and highly trending topic. However, there lacks strong …

An application of a modified beta factor method for the analysis of software common cause failures

T Shorthill, H Bao, E Chen, H Ban - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11321, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents an approach for modeling software common cause failures (CCFs)
within digital instrumentation and control (I&C) systems. CCFs consist of a concurrent failure …

Feature Disentangling Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection of Reactor Core Temperature with Feature Increment Strategy

H Li, X Li, W Mao, J Chang, X Chen, C Zhao, W Wang - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anomaly detection for core temperature has great significance in maintaining the safety of
nuclear power plants. However, traditional auto-encoder-based anomaly detection methods …

Common Cause Failure Evaluation of High Safety-significant Safety-related Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems

H Bao, S Lawrence - 2022 - osti.gov
Digital instrumentation and control (DI&C) systems in nuclear power plants (NPPs) have
many advantages over analog systems but also pose different engineering and technical …

[PDF][PDF] STPA-Based Safety Approach on the Emergency Ventilation System in Nuclear Power Plant

A Shukla, X Gao, YZ Ayele - 2023 - rpsonline.com.sg
Instrumentation and control (I&C) systems have modernized replacing the hardwired
hardware with digital elements. In the past, numerous hazard analysis techniques have …