Risk assessments: From reactor safety to health care
The Laboratory`s Fission Energy and Systems Safety Program (FESSP) performs engineering risk assessments to study and assess the safety, reliability, and effectiveness of various products, processes, and facilities. Evolving methods and techniques are discussed in the context of four cases: an analysis to develop seismic criteria for siting and design of nuclear power plants, risk analysis of reactor coolant piping systems to establish new piping design objectives and increase nuclear power plant safety, study of risks involved in the transport of spent reactor fuel to determine the level of safety provided during transport and the adequacy of existing transport regulations for such material, and development of an approach to identify human-initiated risks in the use of nuclear medical devices such as the Gamma Knife.
- OSTI ID:
- 381171
- Journal Information:
- Science and Technology Review, Other Information: PBD: Aug 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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