Professor Vicki Bier: bier@engr.wisc.edu. Email to make an appointment. Otherwise, weekly office hours M 2-3.45pm. 3234 ME.

1. Defense in Depth. IAEA INSAG-10 Defence in Depth.
2. Redundancy, with independence
   1. Functional diversity – e.g. active safety systems in a passively-safe reactor
   2. Spatial separation – e.g. Brown’s Ferry fire – fire in the electrical cable tray.
3. Safety margin
4. Passive safety. Active safety systems.
   • eg. performance-based fire regulation vs. prescriptive regulation.
5. Davis Besse example
6. Software
   1. SAPHIRE  – free fault-tree software
   2. Maybe other fault-tree software that’s free?
   3. Maybe we’ll have an industry-grade PRA software in CAE