Modeling the Risk of U.S. Offshore Oil & Gas Exploration-Well Drilling, Commercial Nuclear Plants, and Human Spaceflight

Boyer, Roger ; Cross, Robert ; Shanks, Forrest ; Worden, Mike ; Youngblood, Robert

关键词: RISK ASSESSMENT;    RISK;    DRILLING;    OFFSHORE ENERGY SOURCES;    NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;    MANNED SPACE FLIGHT;    PROBABILITY THEORY;    CRUDE OIL;    NATURAL GAS;    FAILURE ANALYSIS;   

RP-ID  :  JSC-E-DAA-TN60837

学科分类：航空航天科学

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

Nuclear power, offshore oil & gas exploration, and human spaceflight all have high consequence potential if something goes wrong. Each has had at least one major incident that pointed to a need for improved risk assessment. Careful risk analysis is very important for technologies having complexity, uncertainty, and high consequence potential. All rely on multiple barriers/controls/redundancy to minimize risk. NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has moved towards risk informed regulation with Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) as a major input.