Abstract
In consideration of application for reprocessing facility, where a variety of causal events such as equipment failure and human error might occur, and the event progression would take place with relatively substantial time delay before getting to the accident stage, a component Monte Carlo program for accident sequence analysis has been developed to pursue chronologically the probabilistic behavior of each component failure and repair in an exact manner. In comparison with analytical formulation and its calculated results, this Monte Carlo technique is shown to predict a reasonable result. Then, taking an example for a sample problem from a German reprocessing facility model, an accident sequence of red-oil explosion in a plutonium evaporator is analyzed to give a comprehensive interpretation about statistic variation range and computer time elapsed for random walk history calculations. Furthermore, to discuss about its applicability for the practical case of plant system with complex component constitution, a possibility of drastic speed-up of computation is shown by parallelization of the computer program.
