Woody wrote this white paper for his sponser at the Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Professor Ninokata, at the end of April, 2011. His analysis preceded those of the NRC, MIT, HSE, and the IAEA.
Category Archives: Projects and Papers
Unforeseen Events, Resilience and PRA
A 2011 update to the 2006 paper on “Unexampled Events, Resilience, and PRA”, with specific relevance to the recent events in Japan.
What’s Wrong with the Fault-Tree Linking Approach for Complex PRA Models?
The FTL approach is subject to some limitations and approximations.
RISKMAN – 20 Years After
Celebrating 20+ years of excellence!
Quantification of Fault Tree Models for Initiating Events
On the lack of accepted modeling and quantification procedures for multi-train support systems using fault trees.