04 · Nuclear Energy Risks · Publications
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, theses and press coverage from the nuclear-energy research programme of the ETH Zurich Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks. For physicist Didier Sornette, nuclear energy belongs in the Swiss electricity mix, along with hydropower and solar.
Nuclear Events Database
Layout, classification and statistical analysis of the ETHZ Curated Nuclear Events Database.
Ali Ayoub, Andrej Stankovski, Wolfgang Kröger and Didier Sornette
The ETH Zurich Curated Nuclear Events Database: Layout, Event Classification, and Analysis of Contributing Factors
Reliability Engineering and System Safety 213, 107781 (2021)
Ali Ayoub, Andrej Stankovski, Wolfgang Kröger and Didier Sornette
Precursors and startling lessons: Statistical analysis of 1250 events with safety significance from the civil nuclear sector
Reliability Engineering and System Safety 214, 107820 (2021)
Ali Ayoub, Spencer Wheatley, Wolfgang Kröger and Didier Sornette
ETHZ Curated Nuclear Events Database
Online database (formerly er-nucleardb.ethz.ch), now hosted by Albatrisk (2019)
Ali Ayoub, Andrej Stankovski, Wolfgang Kröger and Didier Sornette
Status of the ETHZ Curated Nuclear Events Database
ESREL2020-PSAM15 (2020)
Andrej Stankovski
Enhancement of the ETHZ Nuclear Events Database and Preliminary Trend Analysis
Master thesis, ETH Zurich (2020)
Spencer Wheatley, Wolfgang Kröger, Lan Chen and Didier Sornette
Open comprehensive nuclear event database
Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM 14, Los Angeles, CA (2018)
PhD thesis
Ali Ayoub
For a safer nuclear outlook: learning from experience within an adaptive and generic probabilistic safety assessment framework
PhD thesis, ETH Zurich (2021)
Generic PSA models development
Ali Ayoub, Wolfgang Kröger and Didier Sornette
Generic Probabilistic Safety Assessment Models for International Precursor Analysis Applications
International Youth Nuclear Congress (IYNC2020), Sydney, Australia (2020)
Ali Ayoub, Wolfgang Kröger, Olivier Nusbaumer and Didier Sornette
Simplified/Harmonized PSA: A Generic Modeling Framework
ANS PSA 2019 International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis, Charleston, SC, USA (2019)
Xi Chen
Generic Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Analysis on Pressurized Water Reactors
Master thesis, ETH Zurich (2019)
Precursor analysis
Spencer Wheatley, Wolfgang Kröger, Olivier Nusbaumer and Didier Sornette
Analysis of precursor accidents in nuclear power
Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM 14, Los Angeles, CA (2018)
Diverse nuclear topics
Didier Sornette and Euan Mearns
The Swiss federal government’s energy strategy is wishful thinking, says ETH researcher
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 19 July 2022 — on a working paper criticising the optimism of the transition to a solar-dominated energy system (2022)
Wolfgang Kröger, Didier Sornette and Ali Ayoub
Towards Safer and more Sustainable Ways for Exploiting Nuclear Power
World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology 10, 91–115 (2020)
Spencer Wheatley, Benjamin Sovacool and Didier Sornette
Of Disasters and Dragon Kings: A Statistical Analysis of Nuclear Power Incidents & Accidents
Risk Analysis 37 (1), 99–115 (2017)
Spencer Wheatley and Didier Sornette
Une perspective indépendante sur les coûts d’une société avec ou sans nucléaire
Le Temps, 14 November 2016 (2016)
Tom Whipple
Nuclear watchdogs downplaying the risks
The Times, 19 September 2016 — with the press release “Risk of Another Chernobyl or Fukushima Type Accident Plausible, Experts say”, University of Sussex and ETH Zurich (2016)
Spencer Wheatley, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Didier Sornette
Reassessing the Safety of Nuclear Power
Energy Research & Social Science 15, 96–100 (2016)
Spencer Wheatley, Benjamin Sovacool and Didier Sornette
Statistically assessing of the risks of commercial nuclear energy
SGR Newsletter 44, 10–11 (Scientists for Global Responsibility) (2016)
Didier Sornette
A civil super-Apollo project in nuclear R&D for a safer and prosperous world
Energy Research & Social Science 8, 60–65 (2015)
Wolfgang Kröger and Didier Sornette
Reflections on Limitations of Current PSA Methodology
ANS PSA 2013 International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis, Columbia, South Carolina, USA (invited article) (2013)
Didier Sornette, Thomas Maillart and Wolfgang Kröger
Exploring the limits of safety analysis in complex technological systems
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 6, 59–66 (2013)