Importance Analysis of Power Plant Safety Systems

The operator of a power block must prove its safety to the state authority. This article deals with the modeling of safety systems using the fault tree analysis method, powered by RiskSpectrum software. Based on real data, the importance analysis of several safety functions is shown. As a result of a quantitative analysis, the influence of several safety system components on the total availability of the protection system is described. The statistics of a number of components that influence 90% of the unavailability of the safety system and the component with the greatest importance measure from each safety function is also shown.