Abstract
In recent years, small modular reactors have drawn a lot of interest
from all over the world. Innovative techniques are combined in small
modular reactor designs to provide passive safety features,
proliferation resistance, speed of construction, simplicity, and
modularity, as well as reduced costs. Water, gas, and
liquid-metal-cooled reactors are among the several small modular reactor
concepts that are now under development worldwide. Despite some design
changes, the bulk of these designs follow a common set of design
principles to improve plant safety and robustness, such as removing
plant design vulnerabilities whenever possible, lowering accident
probabilities, and limiting accident impacts. This paper describes ways
of assessing reliability indicators of mechanical equipment of small
modular reactors and nuclear power plants, as well as possible ways to
increase their reliability. The first circuit of RITM-200 was selected.
An extensive scientific literature published in the form of Scientific
and Technical Document (STD) is used to predict the failure rate, which
can subsequently be utilized to calculate device and system reliability
with variable accuracy. During the execution of the work, the failure
rates of each equipment in the circuit were obtained and then used to
calculate the circuit’s reliability.