CHAPTER 9: Analytical support

Analytical support

Accident analysis has been already extensively discussed in Module 2. Its role in SAMG development is as follows:
  - It is used to determine the plant vulnerabilities, notably the chronology and severity of challenges to the fission product barriers;
  - It is used to find strategies to mitigate the plant vulnerabilities;
  - It is used to determine entry (set points), throttling (if any) and exit conditions of the SAMG;
  - It is used to determine positive and negative consequences of proposed SAMG actions;
  - It is used to determine accident scenarios for validation of the SAMG.

Where a generic SAMG program has been used for a particular plant, the above analysis is mainly applied to transform the generic strategies and guidelines to the plant specific ones.