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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Takeshi Matsuoka, Michiyuki Kobayashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 64-78
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23526
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A reliability analysis methodology, GO-FLOW, is presented. Detailed explanations and two examples of GO-FLOW analysis are given. The GO-FLOW is a success-oriented system analysis technique. The modeling technique produces the GO-FLOW chart, which is composed of operators and signal lines and represents a function of the system. A signal does not represent a “change of condition” but some physical quantity or information. The intensity of a signal represents the probability of actual or potential existence of a physical quantity, the probability that some information exists, or a time interval between two successive time points. The examples of analysis show the applicability of the GO-FLOW method to a phased mission problem (a boiling water reactor emergency core cooling system) and to a time-dependent unavailability analysis (a pressurized water reactor auxiliary feedwater system). The GO-FLOW has proved to be a valuable and useful tool for system reliability analysis.