Development of a quantitative resilience model for nuclear power plants

The causes of the Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP) accident have been identified as not only technical factors such as the structure, system, and equipment design, but also inadequate management of the human and organizational factors, which were the major contributors to exacerbating the beyond design basis accident. After the accident, the safety paradigm was changed to address the failure of equipment as well as effective factors for...