Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment : proceedings of the ISPRA course held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, 16-19 November 1987

Treatment of Common Cause Failures. The Nordic Perspective.- Classification of Multiple Related Failures.- Design Defences against Multiple Related Failures.- Design-Related Defensive Measures against Dependent Failures - ABB ATOM's Approach.- Design Defences against Common Cause/Multiple Related Failure.- Measures Taken at Design Level to Counter Common Cause Failures. A Few Comments Concerning the Approach of EDF.- Analysis Procedures for Identification of MRF's.- Dependent Failure Modelling by Fault Tree Technique.- Treatment of Multiple Related Failures by MARKOV Method.- Parametric Models for Common Cause Failures Analysis.- Estimation of Parameters of Common Cause Failure Models.- Pitfalls in Common Cause Failure Data Evaluation.- Experience and Results of the CCF-RBE.- Analysis of CCF-DATA-Identification. The Experience from the Nordic Benchmark.- Some Comments on CCF-Quantification. The Experience from the Nordic Benchmark.- Analysis of Common Cause Failures Based on Operating Experience: Possible Approaches and Results.- Multiple Related Failures from the Nordic Operating Experience.- The Use of Abnormal Event Data from Nuclear Power Reactors for Dependent Failure Analysis.- MRF's from the Analysis of Component Data.