2 papers
eess.SY2020
Safety-Critical Protective Systems and Margins of Safety
Martin Wortman, Ernest Kee, Pranav Kannan
The design and operation of protective systems is an essential engineering responsibility. Ensuring public safety, while essential, must be accomplished at a feasible cost and with…
stat.ME2020
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…