Research Article

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

Table 4

Calculation results for Top Event RT 1IN ST (1/yr).

Signal typeCCFs includedCCFs excluded
Mean5th perc.95th perc.Mean5th perc.95th perc.

Analog5.97 × 10−41.12 × 10−41.88 × 10−31.94 × 10−51.43 × 10−59.47 × 10−5
Digital2.51 × 10−44.61 × 10−57.88 × 10−36.11 × 10−63.82 × 10−63.23 × 10−5
Thermocouple7.94 × 10−41.47 × 10−42.50 × 10−32.70 × 10−51.99 × 10−51.41 × 10−4