Research Article

Study on Nuclear Accident Precursors Using AHP and BBN

Table 4

List of all expected criteria.

PrecursorDescriptionPrecursorDescription

C1Safety management (SM)C16Common cause failures (CCF)
C2Initiating events (IE)C17Auxiliary services (AS)
C3Safety assessment (SA)C18Equipment outages (EO)
C4Availability of facilities (AF)C19Organizational aspects (OA)
C5Operation (O)C20Quality assurance (QA)
C6Defense in depth (DiD)C21Design (D)
C7Accident prevention (AP)C22Operator training (OT)
C8Radiation protection (RP)C23Component survivability (CS)
C9Quality management (QM)C24Social aspects (SA)
C10Safety classification (SC)C25Emergency diesel generator (EDG)
C11Maintenance (M)C25Protection against disaster (PD)
C12Political aspects (PA)C26Emergency core cooling system (ECCS)
C13External events (EE)C27Regulations (R)
C14Site characteristics (SC)C28Unavailability of safety system (USS)
C15Control room (CR)C29Deficient emergency response (DER)