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Nuclear Reactors Vulnerability Assessment—A Generic Model

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It should be evident that present authors have attempted to indicate the various applicability of the general QVA approach. A general consensus is that system’s monitored parameters may be aggregated such that the control variables, U and V of the cuspidal stability model for vulnerability analysis be obtained. In addition, one ought to submit that U and V are membership functions of a fuzzy theory set of impact indicators. In this chapter, the emphasis is placed on the installation of a nuclear reactor .

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Gheorghe, A.V., Vamanu, D.V., Katina, P.F., Pulfer, R. (2018). Nuclear Reactors Vulnerability Assessment—A Generic Model. In: Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69224-1_6

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