Integrated deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment (IDPSA) is conceived as a way
to analyze the evolution of accident scenarios in complex dynamic systems, like nuclear …

Dynamic methodologies for probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) are defined as those
which use a time-dependent phenomenological model of system evolution along with its …

Assessment of software reliability is inevitable in modern software production process. Many
works aimed at better models for measurement and prediction of reliability of software …

The Markov/cell-to-cell map** technique (CCMT) and the dynamic flowgraph
methodology (DFM) are two system logic modeling methodologies that have been proposed …

The Markov method is a common reliability assessment method. It is often used to describe
the dynamic characteristics of a system, such as its repairability, fault sequence and multiple …

Digital instrumentation and control (I&C) upgrades are a vital research area for the nuclear
industry. Despite their performance benefits, deployment of digital I&C in nuclear power …

The next-generation nuclear power plants are designed to have inherent safety features and
passive safety systems and use advanced digital instrumentation and control (IC) systems to …

This report documents the activities performed by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) during
fiscal year (FY) 2021 for the US Department of Energy (DOE) Light Water Reactor …

Upgrading the existing analog instrumentation and control (I&C) systems to state-of-the-art
digital I&C (DI&C) systems will greatly benefit existing light water reactors. However, the …

Abstract Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) is a staple in the engineering risk community,
and it has become to some extent synonymous with the entire quantitative risk assessment …