Published 2007 | Version v1
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Dealing with phenomenological uncertainties in PRAs for risk-informed decisions

Creators

  • 1. Staff Engineer, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)

Description

This paper presents a systematic framework for assessing the plant-specific importance of severe accident phenomenological issues and their associated state-of-knowledge uncertainties for risk-informed decisions. Risk importance ranking of the various phenomenological issues that are considered in a plant PRA (Probabilistic Risk Assessment) model is also discussed. Such risk importance measures for phenomenological issues can be helpful for developing research priorities to reduce the overall model uncertainty. (author)

Availability note (English)

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Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
7 p.
Report number
INIS-FR--08-0952

Conference

Title
ICAPP 2007 - International congress on advances in nuclear power plants. The nuclear renaissance at work
Dates
13-18 May 2007
Place
Nice Acropolis (France)

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
39090673
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
DATA COVARIANCES; DECISION MAKING; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS

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