Risk assessment of uranium hexafluoride release from a uranium conversion facility by using a fuzzy approach

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 45, Issue , 2017, Pages 217-228

  Mohsendokht, Massoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Expert elicitation; Fuzzy fault tree analysis; Importance analysis; Risk assessment; Sensitivity analysis; Uranium hexafluoride release

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL HAZARDS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SET THEORY; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; RISK ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXIC MATERIALS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES; EXPERT ELICITATION; FAULT TREE ANALYSES (FTA); FUZZY FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS; URANIUM CONVERSION FACILITIES; URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85009348473     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2017.01.004     Document Type: Article

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