Development of component reliability database for LMFBRs

Naruto, Kenichi*; Kurisaka, Kenichi 

This study aims to implement a probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) based on the component operating experience in sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR). For this purpose, we developed the component reliability database for LMFBRs named CORDS and evaluated the failure rate for SFR PSA using CORDS. The reliability data of 33 years and 15 years have been accumulated in CORDS from Joyo and Monju, respectively. Baysian method was applied to the failure rate evaluation. This evaluation was classified into three cases by considering applicable data amount: (1) when sufficient data of the target plant is available, conventional Bayesian update was applied by using its own data and non-informative prior; (2) when sufficient data of similar plants is available, parametric empirical Baysian method was applied; (3) when sufficient data is not available, conventional Bayesian update was implemented by using all data. This study served to evaluate the failure rate for Monju PSA.