Software quality assurance in the 1996 performance assessment for the waste isolation pilot plant

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 421-427

  Froehlich, G K ^a   Ogden, H C ^a   Byle, K A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PILOT PLANTS; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT (PA); SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA); TRANSURANIC WASTES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0342584231     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00041-7     Document Type: Article

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