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This chapter is a general introduction to PSA considered from the perspective of the special topics of interest for PSA practitioners and/or of use for the newcomers training in this area. These aspects are mainly related to the following: (a) How the NPP information has to be prepared in order to build a PSA model? (b) Which are the specifics of PSA as a probabilistic method of an NPP analysis versus the deterministic one? (c) Specifics of the PSA method, which are of high impact and importance in complementing the deterministic analyses; (d) A survey of the most important PSA tasks for which there is an interest for practitioners and training of newcomers on how actually to implement various standards provisions. The approach adopted in the book is presented, which consists of describing the main goals and difficulties of the tasks, the proposed solutions (based on the authors’ experience) and examples of the use of the suggested solutions.
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Serbanescu, D., Ulmeanu, A. (2020). Introduction. In: Selected Topics in Probabilistic Safety Assessment. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40548-9_1
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