Title :
Reliability analysis of emergency telecommunication systems in nuclear power plants
Author :
Phan, Hanh K. ; Pham, Hoang
Author_Institution :
Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA, USA
Abstract :
Today computers cannot achieve their intended reliability in operating systems, application programs, control programs, or commercial systems, such as nuclear power plant control, space shuttle reliability, etc., without employing redundancy. In this paper, we describe a specific model for the emergency telecommunications system. We derive an expression to determine the reliability and the mean time to failure of the emergency telecommunications system with its mechanical switches and their two types of failure modes
Keywords :
nuclear power stations; power station computer control; redundancy; reliability; MTTF; emergency telecommunication systems; mean time to failure; nuclear power plants; redundancy; reliability analysis; Application software; Control systems; Operating systems; Power generation; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Redundancy; Space shuttles; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication control;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1786-6
DOI :
10.1109/RAMS.1994.291079
