Probabilistic Safety Assessments (PSA), which was introduced in the 1970s as complement to deterministic safety analysis methods, is a well-established tool that supports design and safety assessment ...

Severe accidents at nuclear reactors have occurred much more frequently than what risk-assessment models predicted. The probabilistic risk assessment method does a poor job of anticipating accidents ...

For pesticides, national and international monitoring programmes are in place to measure their occurrence in foods. These programmes are primarily focused on finding exceedances of established maximum ...