Research Article

Statistical Analysis of Loss of Offsite Power Events

Table 6

Plant-level LOOP frequencies assessed from IRSN database.

ModeLOOP categoryNumber of eventsMean frequencyFrequency units

Critical operationPlant110/rcry
Critical operationSwitchyard26/rcry
Critical operationGrid3/rcry
Critical operationWeather6/rcry
Critical operationAll145/rcry
Shutdown operationPlant71/rsy
Shutdown operationSwitchyard11/rsy
Shutdown operationGrid1/rsy
Shutdown operationWeather0/rsy
Shutdown operationAll83/rsy