Product Description: At the world's some 440 nuclear power plants, experts continually monitor their wide safety margins, and at signs of trouble seek out the sources and recommend changes. Too often for their comfort, and for ours, a subsequent problem reveals that these changes were ineffective or never made...read more

This publication provides an approach for achieving the technical consistency of probabilistic safety assessments (PSAs) needed to support reliably various PSA applications. The approach involves the consideration of a set of technical features, called attributes, of the major PSA elements relevant for various applications. The document covers a Level 1 internal events at-power PSA. Nine PSA elements characterizing the major PSA tasks were defined. For each PSA element, a set of general attributes neededfor all PSA applications and special attributes needed for specific PSA applications were elaborated. A comprehensive list of PSA applications was compiled. For each PSA application, a brief description of the purpose of the application and the way the PSA can be used to support it were provided along with the information on what PSA results and metrics can be used in the decision making process. The document provides a mapping of the special attributes to the considered PSA applications.--Publisher's description.

Product Description: This book provides critical analysis and historical evidence to refute the claims of the nuclear power industry that nuclear power can alleviate the build-up of greenhouse gases and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. It also reveals the hazards of further proliferation of nuclear weapons from the growing quantities of plutonium generated by existing nuclear power plants throughout the world...read more