Research Article

Probabilistic Structural Integrity Analysis of Boiling Water Reactor Pressure Vessel under Low Temperature Overpressure Event

Table 5

PFM analysis results of beltline region materials.

Material ID32 EFPY64 EFPY
Total CPITotal CPFTotal CPITotal CPF
1.38 × 10−71.30 × 10−74.13 × 10−73.85 × 10−7
% of CPICPI% of CPFCPF% of CPICPI% of CPFCPF

Axial weldsW-1001-075.337.36 × 10−95.457.09 × 10−97.643.16 × 10−87.903.04 × 10−8
W-1001-0845.376.26 × 10−844.655.80 × 10−838.381.59 × 10−737.131.43 × 10−7
W-1001-0925.923.58 × 10−825.353.30 × 10−823.689.78 × 10−823.258.95 × 10−8
W-1001-1015.822.18 × 10−816.782.18 × 10−817.017.03 × 10−818.227.01 × 10−8
W-1001-1100000.218.67 × 10−100.218.09 × 10−10
W-1001-127.531.04 × 10−87.751.01 × 10−812.975.36 × 10−813.235.09 × 10−8

Circumferential weldW-1102-30.045.52 × 10−110.011.30 × 10−110.114.54 × 10−100.051.93 × 10−10

PlatesSC-03-S300000000
SC-03-S200000000
SC-03-S100000000
SC-04-S100000000
SC-04-S300000000
SC-04-S200000000

The conditional probabilities should be multiplied by 10−3/year (the occurrence frequency of LTOP transient) to determine the fracture and failure frequencies per year.