NE 795 610 Advanced Methods in Probabilistic Risk Assessment

3 Credit Hours

This is a reading class. Each session will be structured as follows:

Each student presents in 5-10 minutes a review of the journal paper that has been read during the previous week. Emphasize the methods of the modeling and simulations, as well as describe the advantages of the approach. Discuss how a model is developed and what is done to verify and validate it. Critically describe what else could be done to improve the presented research.
A one-page summary (about 500 words) for the journal paper is submitted and uploaded as a pdf document to Moodle a day before the meeting time.
Each student proposes 3 new journal papers to select during the class for the next week’s reading.

Prerequisite

None.

10 journal papers will be reviewed and critiqued by each student. In particular, the following areas must be covered:

Development of a full scope PRA study.
Demonstration of a dynamic PRA application.
Modeling of one PRA element in detail.
Implementation of a dynamic PRA approach.
Risk-informed licensing approach.
Each student should include:
i. At least 2 “classic” papers in their set, e.g., from 1970-1990 that introduce some fundamental concepts.
ii. At least 2 “new” papers from 2010 until present time that present state of-the-art techniques and results in the field.
iii. At least 1 comprehensive review paper.

Critiques	60%
Review Paper	40%

None.

Updated 1/16/2025