Preventing cascading failure of electric power protection systems in nuclear power plant

Cascading failure is the main cause of large blackouts in electrical power systems; this paper analyzes a cascading failure in Hanbit nuclear power plant unit two (2) caused by a circuit breaker (CB) operation failure. This malfunction has been expanded to the loss of offsite power (LOOP). In this s...

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Main Authors: Moustafa Abdelrahman Mohamed Mohamed Moustafa, Choong-koo Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573319306424