Research Article

Reliability Assessment for a Safety-Related Digital Reactor Protection System Using Event-Tree/Fault-Tree (ET/FT) Method

Table 1

Failure rates of components (/h).

ModuleλDλUSλUU

ACM2.52 × 10−67.50 × 10−81.25 × 10−8
DCM6.35 × 10−73.02 × 10−93.64 × 10−9
TCM4.61 × 10−67.72 × 10−82.05 × 10−8
AI2.02 × 10−63.83 × 10−89.95 × 10−9
DI9.00 × 10−79.45 × 10−91.71 × 10−9
EXT6.75 × 10−75.70 × 10−91.11 × 10−9
COM7.65 × 10−76.60 × 10−91.11 × 10−9
CPU3.68 × 10−63.90 × 10−81.30 × 10−8
DO7.38 × 10−79.46 × 10−81.24 × 10−9