Abstract
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is a systematic and comprehensive methodology to evalu- ate risks associated with a complex technological entity. PRAs for nuclear power plants have a more than 30 year old success story. The present chapter outlines in depth the PRA history, the essential elements of a PRA, today’s challenges, an outlook, and last but not least, some rational comments to trigger supple- mentary developments and further improvements in the PRA methodology and the related risk manage- ment process.
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Kafka, P. (2008). Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants. In Handbook of Performability Engineering (pp. 1179–1192). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-131-2_71
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