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IAEA looks at nuclear techniques for crop resilience
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a five-year coordinated research project (CRP) to strengthen plant health preparedness using nuclear and related technologies.
Wheat blast, potato late blight, potato bacterial wilt, and cassava witches broom disease can spread quickly across large areas of land, leading to severe yield losses in key crops for food security. Global trade and climate change have increased the likelihood of rapid, transboundary spread.
Shahid Ahmed, R. E. Clark, D. R. Metcalf+
Nuclear Technology | Volume 59 | Number 2 | November 1982 | Pages 238-245
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A33027
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method is developed to propagate uncertainties in the basic event unavailabilities through a logic model to obtain the transient overpower event unavailability. The method consists of combining probability distributions in the discrete form without performing any sampling. The results are shown to be sufficiently accurate and contain no sampling errors; the computation time is considerably less compared to Monte Carlo simulation and histogram propagation. Uncertainty propagation methods are found to be sensitive to the spread of the basic event unavailability distributions; the proposed method produces results less conservative compared to those from propagation of moments or Monte Carlo simulation.