Variability of Site‐Reactor Risk

Timothy S. Margulies and Roger M. Blond

Risk Analysis, 1984, vol. 4, issue 2, 89-96

Abstract: Reactor accident consequence models have been developed (for example, the CRAC model of the Reactor Safety Study (RSS), WASH‐1400) to predict the offsite health and economic consequences of severe accidents at a reactor site with generic demographic and meteorological characteristics. Application of a revised RSS accident consequence model, CRAC2, to 91 existing sites results in a band of risk curves around the earlier WASH‐1400 average reactor/site predictions. This paper examines these calculations and important model assumptions such as population distribution, emergency response, and meteorological data with respect to their effects on site risk extremes—that is, the combination of high consequence/low probability events.

Date: 1984
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