Development and application of a Risk Assessment Tool

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1130-1137

  Majdara, Aref ^a   Nematollahi, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Core Damage Frequency; Failure rate; Importance analysis; Probabilistic Safety Assessment; Risk monitor

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; REACTOR CORES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CORE DAMAGE FREQUENCY; FAILURE RATES; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT (PSA); RISK MONITORING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 40949158409     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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