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7 Fault Tree Analysis 7.1 INTRODUCTION Fault tree analysis (FTA) is widely performed in the industry to evaluate engineering systems during their design and development, in particular the ones used in nuclear power generation. A fault tree may simply be described as a logical representation of the relationship of primary events that lead to a specified undesirable event called the “top event” and is depicted using a tree structure with OR, AND, etc. logic gates. The fault tree method was developed in the early 1960s by H.A. Watson of Bell Telephone Laboratories to perform analysis of the