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Safety Assesment of Nuclear Installations. Principles and Practices

Author: Daniel QUéNIART

Publication date: July 10, 2017

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4. The contribution of probabilistic safety assessments

As we saw in paragraph 2 , the notion of probability is naturally introduced into the assessment of residual risks and discussions on their acceptability. In this respect, it may be tempting to display probabilistic acceptance criteria; but at the very least, a certain caution should be exercised when comparing the results of probabilistic studies with pre-established numerical...

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