Preliminary Development and Application of a Stress-Strength Model for Reliability Estimation of Aged LV Cables for Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract

As a part of the H2020 EU Project called “TeaM Cables” - which has, among its aims, modelling reliability of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) cables - the goal of this paper is to develop a model for the prediction of the residual reliability of Low Voltage (LV) cables for NPPs subjected to gamma radiation stress. The model estimates the probability that such cables withstand random stress overshoot in-service.