By George Lobsenz A federal safety oversight board, following up on concerns it first expressed five years ago, has called on the Energy Department to set clear policies for the use of quantitative risk assessments that increasingly underlie DoE hazard and accident analyses at its nuclear weapons facilities. In a formal July 30 recommendation to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said DoE needed to establish department-wide policies to ensure that risk assessment methods were…
DNFSB To DoE: Clarify Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment
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