Mathematical methods of probabilistic safety analysis

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1974

OSTI ID:7108389

Apostolakis, G E

The objectives of this project can be defined to include the following: (1) To make significant strides in the provision of improved bases or criteria for decision-making involving risk to the public health and safety (where a risk involves a combination of a hazard and the probability of that hazard); (2) To make significant strides in the structuring and development of improved, and possibly alternative, general methodologies for assessing risk and risk-benefit for technological systems; (3) To develop improvements in the techniques for the quantitative assessment of risk and benefit; (4) To apply methods of risk and risk-benefit assessment to specific applications in nuclear power (and possibly other technological systems) in order to test methodologies, to uncover needed improvements and gaps in technique, and to provide a partial, selective, independent assessment of the levels of risk arising from nuclear power.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles (USA). School of Engineering and Applied Science
• OSTI ID: 7108389
• Report Number(s): PB-261873; UCLA-ENG-7464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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