Potential for accidents in a nuclear power plant: probabilistic risk assessment, applied statistical decision theory, and implications of such considerations to mathematics education

Thesis/Dissertation · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5119268

Dios, R A

This dissertation focuses upon the field of probabilistic risk assessment and its development. It investigates the development of probabilistic risk assessment in nuclear engineering. To provide background for its development, the related areas of population dynamics (demography), epidemiology and actuarial science are studied by presenting information upon how risk has been viewed in these areas over the years. A second major problem involves presenting an overview of the mathematical models related to risk analysis to mathematics educators and making recommendations for presenting this theory in classes of probability and statistics for mathematics and engineering majors at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Research Organization: New York Univ., NY (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5119268
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
REACTOR SAFETY
RISK ASSESSMENT
DECISION MAKING
EDUCATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ENGINEERING
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
POWER PLANTS
SAFETY
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety
290600 - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy