Comparison between best-estimate-plus-uncertainty methods and conservative tools for nuclear power plant licensing

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-47

  Bucalossi, Andrea ^a   Petruzzi, Alessandro ^b   Krištof, Marian ^c   D'Auria, Francesco ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c AiNS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Best estimate and uncertainty evaluation; CIAU; Licensing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING;

BEST ESTIMATE METHOD; CIAU; CONSERVATIVE APPROACHES; EVALUATION MODELING; REACTOR SAFETY ANALYSIS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC CODES; UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958127377     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT172-29     Document Type: Article

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