Management of Uncertainty in Safety Cases and the Role of Risk
Subtitle: Workshop Proceedings: Stockholm, Sweden 2-4 February 2004
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
Contributors: Nuclear Energy Agency
Series: Radioactive waste management; Radioactive Waste Management
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789264008793
Subjects: Nuclear energy
Description: These workshop proceedings discuss different approaches to treating uncertainties in safety cases for radioactive waste management facilities, and more specifically how concepts of risk can be used in both post-closure safety cases and regulatory evaluations. This report includes a synthesis of the plenary presentations and the discussions that took place during the workshop. These proceedings will be of interest to waste repository safety assessors and managers.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Workshop Objectives and Structure; title: Plenary Session; title: -Risk in Technical and Scientific Studies: General Introduction to Uncertainty Management and the Concept of Risk by G. E. Apostolakis; title: Risk Perception as a Factor in Policy and Decision Making by L. Sjoberg; title: The Collection of Expert Judgements for Environmental Risk Studies by S. C. Hora; title: Survey of the Role of Uncertainty and and Risk in Current Regulations by R. Wilmot; title: Management of Uncertainties and the Role of Risk in Andra's Programme by A. Grevoz; title: Treatment of Uncertainty in the US Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain Repository Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA) by A. Van Luik and E. Zwahlen; title: Risk Considerations in the Domains of Protections against Major Accidents in Comparison with Risk Control for Nuclear Power Plants by F. K. Gmunder; title: Development of Safety Criteria in Germany: Aim Process and Experiences by B. Baltes and K.-J. Rohlig; title: Consideration of Unlikely Events and Uncertainties in the Finnish Safety Regulations for Spent Fuel Disposal by E. Ruokola; title: RISCOM II - Enhancing Transparency and Public Participation in Nuclear Waste Management by M. Westerlind and K. Andersson; title: Uncertainty Governance: an Integrated Framework for Managing and Communicating Uncertainties by H. Hmeki. M. Naito, and H. Takase; title: Working Group 1. Risk Management and Decision Making; title: -Discussion of Risks in the Context of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Spent Fuel Repository in Finland by J. Vira; title: Experience of Risk Perception from Oskarshamn Municipality by H. Ahagen; title: Concepts of Uncertainty Classification and New Methods of Risk Management for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste by G. Bardossy, J. fodor, and F. Frigyesi; title: Working Group 2. Regulatory Requirements and Review of Uncertainty and Risk in Safety Cases; title: -SSI's Regulations in Connection with Post-Closure Radioactive Waste Disposal by M. Jensen; title: The Management of Uncertainties in the French Regulation on Deep Disposal: The Development of Non-Risk Based Approach by P.Raimbault; title: Estimates of Post-Closure Ris in Regulatory Decision-Making: Environmental Agency Issues and Options by S. L. Dureden, I. J. Streatfield, and R. A. Yearsley; title: Proposed Review of Current Regulatory Safety Criteria for the HLW by C. Kirschsteiger and R. Bolado-Lavin; title: Use of Risk Information in Regulatory Reviews by B. Sagar, R. Benke, and S. Mohanty; title: Working Group 3. Practical Approaches and Tools for the Management of Uncertainty; title: The Issue of Risk Dilution in Risk Assessments by R. Wilmot and P. Robinson; title: Risk Assessment Using Probabilistic Standards by R. Avila; title: Methodology for Risk Assessment of an SNF Repository in Sweden by A. Hedin; title: Global Sensitivity Analyses Methods for Generating Risk Information by O. Pensado, B. Sagar, and S. Mohanty; title: Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for a Potential HLW Repository in Korea: TSPA 2006 by Y. S. Hwang and C. H. Kang; title: Physically Based Probability Criterion for Exceeding Radionuclide Concentration Limits in Heterogeneous Bedrock by A. Worman; title: List of Participants