Research Article

Assessing the Impact of Common Cause Failures on Site Risk within Level 1 Multi-Unit PSA

Table 8

Major CCF events in the multi-unit LOOP followed by SBO event.

No.EventDescriptionFV#MCS

1EPDGW-DGABDGs A and B fail to start and load due to CCF0.0224903
22-EPDGW-DGCDDGs C and D fail to start and load due to CCF0.0224903
3EPDGW-CCF-DG-A-AACLoss of power from DG A and AACDG due to inter-unit CCF0.0001321
4EPDGW-CCF-DG-B-AACLoss of power from DG B and AACDG due to inter-unit CCF0.0001321
5EPDGW-CCF-DG-AB-AACAll DGs fail to start due to inter-unit CCF0.0001321
62-EPDGW-CCF-DG-C-AACLoss of power from DG C and AACDG due to inter-unit CCF0.0001321
72-EPDGW-CCF-DG-D-AACLoss of power from DG D and AACDG due to inter-unit CCF0.0001321
82-EPDGW-CCF-DG-CD-AACLoss of power from DG C and AACDG due to inter-unit CCF0.0001321
9AFW-CCF-LK-STMBDUNDETECT LKAGETHRU CHK VLV CV27, CF58, or CV890.0000017
102-AFW-CCF-LK-STMBDUNDETECT LKAGETHRU CHK VLV CV27, CF58, or CV890.0000017