Building confidence in the reliability assessment of thermal-hydraulic passive systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-281

  Zio, E ^a   Pedroni, N ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Bootstrap; Confidence intervals; Monte Carlo sampling; Reliability assessment; Thermal hydraulic passive system; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; FADING CHANNELS; FUSION REACTIONS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BOOTSTRAP; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MONTE-CARLO SAMPLING; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC PASSIVE SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 54049154706     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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