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Is Core Damage Frequency an Informative Risk Metric?
Martin A. Wortman, Ernest J. L. Kee, Pranav Kannan
Core Damage Frequency (CDF) is a risk metric often employed by nuclear regulatory bodies worldwide. Numerical values for this metric are required by U.S. regulators, prior to react…
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Characterizing the Probability Law on Time Until Core Damage With PRA
Martin Wortman, Ernest Kee, Paul Nelson
Certain modeling assumptions underlying Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) allow a simple computation of core damage frequency (CDF). These assumptions also guarantee that the tim…