Protection system proposed for the FED superconducting coils

A failure modes study was the basis for establishing the protection system requirements and for identifying possible design alternatives or options that may be considered. Components of the protection system are discussed with respect to the redundancy and monitoring needed to assure high reliability, as measured by the probability that the system will respond when needed but will not respond inadvertently. High reliability is achieved by making the system fault tolerant using redundancy, decision logic, and computer monitoring.