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In my first lecture, I discussed the way that safety is implemented and assured in the reactor enterprise in the United States. Now I will discuss quantitative risk assessment and its role in reactor safety.
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The Reactor Safety Study, Report No. WASH-1400, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (1975).
H.W. Lewis, et al., NUREG/CR-0400, “Risk Assessment Review Group Report to the NRC,” Washington, DC (1978).
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Budnitz, R.J. (1980). The Role of Quantitative Risk Assessment in Reactor Safety. In: Wilson, R. (eds) Energy for the Year 2000. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3153-7_15
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