Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management of Nuclear Facilities

Dear Colleagues,

The probabilistic safety assessment and management of nuclear facilities must be rigorous and reliable to support robust design practices and informed decision-making. This Special Issue aims to present recent advancements in the methodologies and techniques used in reliability and safety analyses and the quantitative risk assessment and management of nuclear facilities and systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Risk assessment methods;
• Internal-event risk assessments;
• External- and natural-hazard risk assessments;
• Climate change risk assessments;
• Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses;
• Active and passive system reliability;
• Structural reliability and health management;
• Disaster management;
• Resilience engineering;
• Physical and cyber security;
• Risk-based decision-making processes.

This Special Issue is inspired by the works presented at the PSAM17&ASRAM2024 Conference held in Sendai, Japan, from October 7 to 11, 2024. Extended versions of selected works presented at that conference will be considered. Contributions from other researchers and practitioners beyond the conference participants are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Enrico Zio
Dr. Ibrahim Ahmed
Guest Editors

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