Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
Page Numbers
545 to 554
Conference Name
2011 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference
Conference Location
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Conference Date
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Abstract
As a result of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary effort on the part of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), its contractors, and the nuclear industry, a technical
basis has been established to support a risk-informed revision to pressurized thermal shock (PTS) regulations originally promulgated in the mid-1980s. The revised regulations provide alternative (optional) reference-temperature (RT)-based screening criteria, which is codified in 10 CFR 50.61(a). How the revised screening criteria were determined from the results of the probabilistic fracture mechanics (PFM) analyses will be discussed in this paper.