Human reliability analysis methods for probabilistic safety assessment

VTT Publications

Volumn , Issue 422, 2000, Pages 2-63

  Pyy, Pekka ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expert judgement; HRA; Human factors; Human reliability analysis; Probabilistic safety assessment; Simulator studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746590350     PISSN: 12350621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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