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Nuclear Materials Safety Research
The NRC’s 1995 Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Policy Statement states
that "the use of PRA technology should be increased in all regulatory
matters to the extent supported by the state-of-the-art in PRA methods
and data..." NRC’s PRA research program contributes to the implementation
of this policy, in that it applies current methods and data to the resolution
of reactor safety issues facing the staff, as well as develops and demonstrates
new state-of-the-art PRA methods.
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