Data-theoretic approach for socio-technical risk analysis: Text mining licensee event reports of U.S. nuclear power plants

This paper is a product of a line of research that uses the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) theoretical framework and Integrated PRA (I-PRA) methodological framework to theorize and quantify underlying organizational mechanisms contributing to socio-technical system risk scenarios. I-PRA has an input module that executes the Data-Theoretic (DT) approach, where “data analytics” can be guided by “theory.” The DT input module of I-PRA has...