This 30 hour course explains the practical use of the Plant Technical Specifications and the Probabilistic Safety Analysis.

Topics include:

• Basic concept of nuclear risk and damage

• Probabilistic and Mechanistic Approaches

• Introduction to Plant Technical Specifications

-Purpose and scope

-Practical examples

• PSA general features

-Different levels in PSA studies

-Basic learning of the main components: event and fault trees

• PSA plant applications

-Risk Monitor

-Maintenance Rule