The Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System Data Usage in Availability Engineering

Applications of technology of the reliability, availability and maintainability engineering disciplines are taking place between the aerospace and electrical utility industry. Included in these activities is the use of available data in generating solutions to various problems. In this paper deterministic methodology is applied to data collected for the Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System to illustrate the use of such data in problem solving. The results of this exercise demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining point estimates with large confidence levels.