Calculating Nuclear Power Plant Vulnerability Using Integrated Geometry and Event/Fault-Tree Models

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-87

  Peplow, Douglas E ^a   Sulfredge, C David ^a   Sanders, Robert L ^a   Morris, Robert H ^a   Hann, Todd A ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLASTING; BUILDINGS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANT LAYOUT; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; PROBABILITY;

INTEGRATED GEOMETRY; TERRORIST ATTACKS;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0742304605     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE04-A2394     Document Type: Article

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