Published September 1989 | Version v1
Report

A method to incorporate uncertainty and degree of compliance in safety goals

  • 1. UKAEA Safety and Reliability Directorate, Culcheth (UK)

Description

We propose a method for the construction of quantitative regulatory safety goals that are compatible with current risk assessment and uncertainty evaluation techniques. The concept of 'degree of compliance' is introduced in order to reflect the vagueness inevitably attached to any reasonable notion of 'safety' underlying a safety goal. The logical and general procedure for comparing risk assessment with safety goal produces data in a convenient and transparent format designed to facilitate regulatory decision making. (author). 8 refs, 12 figs

Part of:
Status, experience and future prospects for the development of probabilistic safety criteria

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Status, experience and future prospects for the development of probabilistic safety criteria
Imprint Pagination
241 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 137-163.
Report number
IAEA-TECDOC--524

Conference

Title
Technical committee on status, experience and future prospects for the development of probabilistic safety criteria.
Dates
27-31 Jan 1986.
Place
Vienna (Austria).

INIS

Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
21028641
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
LICENSING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; RECOMMENDATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ANALYSIS
Descriptors DEC
NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS

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