Research Article

Statistical Analysis of Loss of Offsite Power Events

Table 8

Plant-level LOOP frequencies assessed from US NRC database.

ModeLOOP categoryNumber of eventsMean frequencyFrequency units

Critical operationPlant14/rcry
Critical operationSwitchyard42/rcry
Critical operationGrid7/rcry
Critical operationWeather12/rcry
Critical operationAll75/rcry
Shutdown operationPlant13/rsy
Shutdown operationSwitchyard23/rsy
Shutdown operationGrid4/rsy
Shutdown operationWeather5/rsy
Shutdown operationAll45/rsy