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PSR-0608 SAPHIRE 8.0.9.
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PSR-0608 SAPHIRE 8.0.9.

SAPHIRE 8.0.9, Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-On Integrated Reliability Evaluations

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM

SAPHIRE 8.0.9

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name Package id Status Status date
SAPHIRE 8.0.9 PSR-0608/01 Arrived 23-OCT-2014

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
PSR-0608/01 PC Windows
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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has developed a powerful personal computer (PC) software application for performing probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs), called Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations (SAPHIRE) Version 8.

 

Using SAPHIRE 8 on a PC, an analyst can perform a PRA for any complex system, facility, or process. Regarding nuclear power plants, SAPHIRE can be used to model a plant's response to initiating events, quantify associated core damage frequencies, and identify important contributors to core damage (Level 1 PRA). It can also be used to evaluate containment failure and release models for severe accident conditions, given that core damage has occurred (Level 2 PRA). It can be used for a PRA assuming that the reactor is at full power, at low power, or at shutdown conditions. Furthermore, it can be used to analyze both internal and external initiating events, and it has special features for transforming models built for internal event analysis to models for external event analysis. It can also be used in a limited manner to quantify risk for release consequences to both the public and the environment (Level 3 PRA). For all of these models, SAPHIRE can evaluate the uncertainty inherent in the probabilistic models. SAPHIRE has evolved with advances in computer technology.

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4. METHODS

SAPHIRE contains editors or options for creating event trees and fault trees, defining accident sequences and basic event failure data, solving system fault trees and accident sequence event trees, quantifying cut sets, performing sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, documenting the results, and generating reports. SAPHIRE capabilities for performing a PRA are summarized below:

  • Graphical fault tree construction

  • Graphical event tree construction

  • Rule-based fault tree linking

  • Fast cut set generation

  • Fault tree flag sets

  • Failure data

  • Uncertainty analysis

  • Cut set editor, slice, display, and recovery analysis tools

  • Cut set path tracing

  • Cut set comparison

  • Cut set end state partitioning

  • End state analysis

  • User-defined model types

  • User-defined basic event attributes

 

SAPHIRE 8 has a powerful report generation module. In addition, SAPHIRE has utility functions to recover a corrupted database, check project information for quality purposes, and change user defined constants. With SAPHIRE, a user can export the graphical fault trees and event trees to an industry-standard Windows metafile or JPEG files.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

Due to the complexity of and the variety of ways a fault tree can be defined it is difficult to define limits on the complexity of the problem solved by this software. It is, however, capable of solving a substantial fault tree due to efficient methods. At this time, the software can efficiently solve problems as large as other software currently used on mainframe computers.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

Running times are a function of the problem to be solved and the actions performed by the user.

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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
PSR-0608/01 23-OCT-2014 Masterfiled Arrived
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10. REFERENCES

Background Documentation:

  • W.L. Woodruff: Supplemental Information for COBRA-3C/RERTR ANL Applied Physics Division Memorandum (February 1983).

PSR-0608/01, included references:
- C. L. Smith, S. T. Wood:
Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations
(SAPHIRE) Version 8 - Vols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, NUREG/CR-7039
INL/EXT-09-17009 (June 2011).
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11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

PC with Microsoft Windows. This package was tested at RSICC using a Windows Xeon 64 bit Windows7 system.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
Package ID Computer language
PSR-0608/01 C-LANGUAGE, C++, MODULA 2, VISUAL BASIC
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13. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Package includes precompiled executable for Windows operating systems.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Contributed by: Radiation Safety Information Computational Center

                Oak Ridge National Laboratory

                Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Developed by:   Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
PSR-0608/01
precompiled executable for Windows operating systems
sample problem input
electronic documentation
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17. CATEGORIES
  • K. Reactor Systems Analysis
  • R. Environmental and Earth Sciences

Keywords: probabilistic sys assessment, risk assessment.