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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
Ernest V. Moore, S. F. Deng, K. K. Chitkara, B. B. Chu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 53-63
Technical Paper | Third International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33663
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System success criteria used in probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs) have typically been based on conservative licensing success criteria. The availability of best-estimate thermal-hydraulic computer codes such as RETRAN provides a means to review and determine if more realistic system success criteria can be justified. How RETRAN can be used to establish realistic system success criteria is demonstrated, and how realistic versus conservative system success criteria can significantly improve a PRA’s evaluation of plant risk is illustrated.