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Introduction

  • Curtis Lee Smith

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Abstract

Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) is the systematic process of constructing and quantifying a model representing risk, wherein either the likelihood or the consequences or both are treated in a probabilistic fashion. PSA identifies, probabilistically, the scenarios initiating and leading to the undesired outcome, the likelihood of said scenarios, and the magnitude of the consequences. These three items, the scenario, the likelihood, and the negative consequences, form the basis of the risk triplet for the ith scenario.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRisk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationModeling, Experimentation, and Validation
PublisherElsevier
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9780323911528
ISBN (Print)9780323998185
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

Publication series

NameRisk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering: Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation

Keywords

  • EMRALD
  • Event tree
  • Fault tree analysis
  • Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)
  • Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA)
  • Probability

INL Publication Number

  • NA

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