Research Article

Containment Depressurization Capabilities of Filtered Venting System in 1000 MWe PWR with Large Dry Containment

Table 7

Overall safety improvement effect by the installation of the CFVS.

CategoryInternal eventExternal eventCurrent designw/CFVS
FireSeismic

No containment failure66.340.039.343.187.3
Early containment failure0.51.01.00.90.9
Late containment failure12.546.148.243.10.0
Base-mat melt through3.84.84.54.44.4
CFBRB5.90.20.31.10.0
Isolation failure1.56.95.44.94.9
Containment bypass9.51.11.22.42.4

Sum100100100100100