Characterization, propagation and analysis of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in the 2008 performance assessment for the proposed repository for high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6379 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 177-190

  Hansen, Clifford W ^a   Helton, Jon C ^a   Sallaberry, Cédric J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY SPACES; SAMPLE SPACE; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LANDFORMS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958067543     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15951-0_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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