Grading is an important step of the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) operation & maintenance activities. However, there are several grading difficulties for the High Temperature Gas Reactor (HTGR) as well as the other type of NPPs causing by the lack of operational experiences and availability of the reliability data. Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) is one of the mature techniques that are commonly used to solve such kinds of difficulties. Nevertheless, traditional FMEA has several issues and possibly become an obstacle in the grading process. The modified FMEA by utilizing expert judgment elicitation techniques combined with the fuzzy logic theory is proposed to solve those issues. As a study practice, the proposed methodology is applied by examining Japanese’s HTGR, Gas Turbine High Temperature Reactor 300 for Cogeneration (GTHTR300C) design carefully. This study establishing good practice especially for the future advanced NPP maintenance activities development.
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