The development and application of the accident dynamic simulator for dynamic probabilistic risk assessment of nuclear power plants

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 52, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 297-314

  Hsueh, Kae Sheng ^a,b   Mosleh, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Civil Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENT SCENARIOS; DYNAMIC PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; DYNAMIC SIMULATOR; PLANT THERMAL HYDRAULICS BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030173811     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(95)00140-9     Document Type: Article

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