Current status of the component failure rates evaluation work based on the reprocessing plant maintenance data

Ishida, Michihiko ; Suto, Toshiyuki ; Inano, Masatoshi; Aoshima, Atsushi ; Muramatsu, Ken; Ueda, Yoshinori*

A study to evaluate component failure rates for a reprocessing plant has started at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The study is sponsored by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) as a contract research. The Tokai Reprocessing plant(TRP) has been operating over 30 years since 1977. Maintenance records of plant components have been accumulated and compiled in the Tokai Reprocessing Plant Maintenance Support System (TORMASS). Since the TORMASS was thought to be an effective source to pick up component failure information, the evaluation work of component failure rates started at 2005 based on the maintenance records in the TORMASS. By the end of 2006, failure rates for 17 types of 392 components had been evaluated. This result is expected to contribute to building up generic database for reprocessing plant component failure rates in order to promote the utilization of the risk information for reprocessing plants in Japan.