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Risk and safety analysis of nuclear systems /

"The book has been developed in conjunction with NERS 462, a course offered every year to seniors and graduate students in the University of Michigan NERS program. The first half of the book covers the principles of risk analysis, the techniques used to develop and update a reliability data bas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee, John C., 1941- (Author), McCormick, Norman J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2011]
Series:Wiley online library.
Subjects:
Nuclear engineering > Risk assessment.
Nuclear engineering > Safety measures.
Nuclear facilities > Security measures.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Risk and Safety of Engineered Systems
  • Probabilities of Events
  • Reliability Data
  • Reliability of Multiple-Component Systems
  • Availability and Reliability of Systems with Repair
  • Probabilistic Risk Assessment
  • Computer Programs for Probabilistic Risk Assessment
  • Nuclear Power Plant Safety Analysis
  • Major Nuclear Power Plant Accidents and Incidents
  • PRA Studies of Nuclear Power Plants
  • Passive Safety and Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
  • Risk-Informed Regulations and Reliability-Centered Maintenance
  • Dynamic Event Tree Analysis
  • Appendix A: Reactor Radiological Sources
  • Appendix B: Some Special Mathematical Functions
  • Appendix C: Some Failure Rate Data
  • Appendix D: Linear Kalman Filter Algorithm
  • Answers to Selected Exercises
  • Index.