Severe accidents at nuclear reactors have occurred much more frequently than what risk-assessment models predicted. The probabilistic risk assessment method does a poor job of anticipating accidents ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled an integrated air pollution analysis framework that enables more precise ...

Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment (DPRA) represents a significant evolution in the evaluation of nuclear power plant safety, integrating time-dependent models of system evolution with stochastic ...

The Coordinated Research Project on Probabilistic Safety Assessment Benchmarks for Multiunit Multi Reactor Sites (2018-2022) brought together the experts from the IAEA Member States with mainly ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Ovidiu Coman, IAEA Department of Nuclear Safety and ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should examine the benefits of mandating that nuclear plants in the U.S. add probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) to methods used to evaluate and prepare for ...

The design and construction of capital projects can be extremely complex. Uncertainty and risk add to this complexity and, as a result, many projects experience significant cost overruns and schedule ...

Discover essential risk assessment methods, including qualitative and quantitative analyses, to make informed investment ...

ENTSO-E has published the third Probabilistic Risk Assessment Report (PRA), a report that comes out every other year, detailing Europe's latest progress on integrating probabilistic methods . . .

The multiple and ongoing accidents at the Fukushima reactors come as a reminder of the hazards associated with nuclear power. As with the earlier severe accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, ...