%0 Journal Article
%T Methods used to assess the safety and reliability of a nuclear reactor rod control system
%J Reliability engineering
%D 1980
%A Welsh, C.R.
%A Lundberg, P.K.
%V 1
%N 1
%P 59-68
%X This paper describes the reliability techniques used to estimate the risk of fission product release from accidents caused by faults in the rod control system of a pressurized water reactor.These techniques include: a three-level reliability assessment using a functional event tree and two levels of fault tree to assess functional and system's reliability, an operator response model using event trees and a method of using the structure function of a reliability model to investigate possible common mode failure interactions.<p />
%G 
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0143-8174
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(80)90015-3