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The foundations of the HMIP system simulation approach to performance assessment

Conference ·
OSTI ID:127208
 [1];  [2]
  1. Her Majesty`s Inspectorate of Pollution, London (United Kingdom)
  2. Intera Information Technologies, Oxon (United Kingdom)
Her Majesty`s Inspectorate of Polution (HMIP) of the United Kingdom has developed a procedure for the post closure assessment of the underground disposal of radioactive waste. In this paper the method of using theory and ideas from the mathematical sciences for assessment is described. The system simulation methodology seeks to discover key combinations of processes or effects which may yield behaviour of interest by sampling across functional and parametric uncertainties, and treating the systems within a probabilistic framework. This paper also discusses how HMIP assessment methodology has been presented, independent of any current application, for review by leading scientists who are independent of the performance assessment field.
OSTI ID:
127208
Report Number(s):
CONF-9504179--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English