Probabilistic Safety

Niehaus, F. 1987 Prospects for Use of Probabilistic Safety Criteria. In Wittman, F. H. (ed.). Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology. Rotterdam Balkema. 

Versteeg, M. F. 1987 External Safety Policy in the Netherlands an approach to risk management. In Proceedings of the Technical Committee Meeting, Status, Experience, and Future Prospects for the Development of Probabilistic Safety Criteria, Vienna, 27-31 January. 

Overview of the Probabilistic Safety Process Using Event Trees... 

IPPSS - Indian Point Probabilistic Safety Study (PSA). 

PRA - probabilistic risk assessment/probabilistic safety assessment, synonymous with PSA. The PRA Procedures Guide is NUREG/CR-23(X). PRA was the original term but became probabilistic safety assessment to avoid the negative implication of risk. ... 

WA.SH-1400 - The report of the Rasmussen Study that effectively started the use of probabilistic safety assessment. 

Baranowsky, P.W., A.M, Kolaczkowski, and M.A. Fedele, A Probabilistic Safety Analysis of DC Power Supply Requirements for Nuclear Power Plants, April 1981. 

S15 Papazoglou, I. A. et al., Probabilistic Safety Analysis Procedures Guide, BNL, January 1984,... 

Kolb, G, J. et al., Review and Evaluation of the Indian Point Probabilistic Safety Study, SNL, December 1982. 

AECL, 1989, CANDU-3 Conceptual Probabilistic Safety Assessment. ... 

Allen, P. J. et al., 1990, Summary of CANDU-6 Probabilistic Safety Assessment Study Results, Nuclear Safety 31, 2, pp 202-214. 

Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment, Cl Beach, FL, pp 747-753, January 26-29. 

Commonwealth Edison Co., 1981, Zion Probabilistic Safety Study, Chicago, IL. 

Fullwood, R. and W. Shier, 1990, PRA Using Event Tables and the Brookhaven Event Tree Analyzer (BETA), The Role and Use of Personal Computers in Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Decision Making, Elsevier, NY, ISBN 1-85166-501-3, pp 79-92/... 

IAEA, 1988, Component Reliability Data for Use in Probabilistic Safety Assessment, lecDoc-478, Vienna. 

Indian Point 2 and 3, 1982, Indian Point Probabilistic Safety Study, Consolidated Edison and NY Power Authority. 

Jaitly, R K., 1995, The CANDU-9 Probabilistic Safety Assessment Program, PSA 95, Seoul, Korea, pp 33-38, November 26-30. 

Ontario Hydro, 1987, Darlington Probabilistic Safety Evaluation. ... 

Paptizoglou, I.A., et al, 1990a, Probabilistic Safety Analysis of an Ammonia Storage Plant," PSAM-I, Beverly Hills California, February 4-7. 

Ringhals, 1983, Ringhals 2 Probabilistic Safety Study, Swedish State Power Board. 

Sizewell-B, 1982, "Sizewell B Probabilistic Safety Study, Westinghouse Electric WCAP-9991. 

Taylor, J. H. et al., 1986, Probabilistic Safety Study Applications Program for In tion of the Indian Point Unit 3 Nuclear Power Plant, NUREG/CR-4565, March. 

Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries... 

The last three decades have seen the development of a new science to help us better understand the risk of events about which there is often very little information. The reason there is interest in such a science is that there are a great many societal benefits from activities that involve risk risk that if properly managed through better understanding can greatly benefit the quality of all life on the planet earth, both plant and animal. That science is quantitative risk assessment, also known by such names as probabilistic risk assessment and probabilistic salety assessment, the latter being the preferred name for this text. Probabilistic safety assessment divides the risk question into three questions "What can go wrong " "How likely is it " and "What are the consequences "... 

Probabilistic safety assessment has had its greatest push in relation to the assessment ni risk associated with nuclear power plant operation as documented in the author s previous hook This new book, besides updating and reorganizing the nuclear portions of the previous text, entures into I he salety as.sessment of chemical facilities, another important industry dri ver of probabilistic s.ifety assessment methods and applications. 

This book, for the most part, is a stand-alone text. It addresses not only the fundamentals of PSA as a science, but insights on the regulatory framework affecting its development and apidication. In particular, it provides the basic methods of analysis that can be employed, available databases, an excellent set of examples, software resources, chapter summaries that tacilitate comprehension, and problem sets that are very well connected to the theory. While much has been written about probabilistic safety assessment over the last three decades, this is the most comprehensive attempt so far to provide a much needed college level textbook for the education of risk and safety professionals. It also provides a valuable reference for any individual curious enough about the risk and safety sciences to want to become much more informed. 

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