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As executive vice president for industry strategy at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Jeff Place leads INPO’s industry-facing work, engaging directly with chief nuclear officers.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 79 | Number 1 | October 1987 | Pages 66-81
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A16005
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Past reports have estimated occurrence rates for certain multiple failure events. These reports are based on the binomial failure rate (BFR) common cause model and on licensee event report data. Uncertainty distributions for the four basic BFR parameters formed the basis of the past reports. These distributions are tabulated, and from them an analyst can estimate, with uncertainty bounds, the rate or probability of a quite arbitrary multiple failure event. No longer is there a restriction to those events for which rates have been published.