Category: Risk and Safety Assessments
- PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT
- Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) activities include development of probabilistic methods for applications
to safety analysis of nuclear facilities including consequence analysis; basic plant component failure
data analysis; systems reliability modeling with common cause failure; sensitivity theory methods and
applications in PRA; use of PRA techniques in support of plants modifications and maintenance, including
analysis of human factors in procedures; and applications of PRA methods and models to new facility
designs with stress of spent fuel treatment and disposal facilities are carried out.
Contact: Joe Braun
| Fax: +1 630-252-4500 | Related Information - PROLIFERATION ASSESSMENT OF FUTURE NUCLEAR ARCHITECTURES
- A major issue facing the development and expansion of nuclear power worldwide is the possibility
for diversion of the technologies and materials to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). A challenge facing
the United States is assessing and understanding the proliferation risks of future nuclear architectures
(power plant and fuel cycle designs). The objective of our work is to apply ANL capabilities and technical
expertise to activities aimed at limiting the capacity of would-be proliferators to pursue programs
to develop WMD. Among our projects are: developing systems to improve security of nuclear materials
in the successor states of the former Soviet Union; providing technical advisory services to DOE in
the implementation of U.S. nonproliferation policy; developing classified and unclassified information
systems for national security and developing novel approaches to assess system vulnerabilities and
improve both domestic and international nuclear safeguards.
Contact: Pete Heine
| Fax: +1 630-252-7308 | Related Information
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