A Dialogue Scheme Between Scientists and Engineers to Handle Design Uncertainties in Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract eng:
Importance of close collaboration among scientists and engineers is discussed based on experiences on seismic design guidelines for Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) in Japan. Following general aspects of the problem in the context of engineering decision uncertainties, some experiences are presented where collaboration among geophysical scientists and engineers were essential. These examples include discussion in the course of revision of the Regulatory Guide for Reviewing Seismic Design of Nuclear Power Reactor Facilities, publication of Standard for Procedure of Seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessment for NPP by Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ Standard on PSA), JNES Workshop on PSA, and a JNES project on logic tree application to assessment of a major active fault.

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