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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: common cause failures, pl
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Definition: failures of multiple items, which would otherwise be considered independent of one another, resulting from a single cause

Note 1 to entry: Common cause failures can also be "common mode failures" (IEV 192-03-19).

Note 2 to entry: The potential for common cause failures reduces the effectiveness of system redundancy.


Publication date:2015-02
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Internal notes:2016-10-20: "" and prefix "IEV " added. JGO
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