Perspectives on Engineering Uncertainty

This book is a monograph with five authors. Corresponding author, William J. Nuttall is a technology and policy specialist with particular expertise in energy systems. He is Professor of Energy Policy and Transformation at the University of Bristol, having previously been Professor of Energy at The Open University, based in Milton Keynes, UK from 2012 to 2024. This work is an output of the EMEANSS project, a UKRI-funded collaboration led by nuclear engineering specialist Professor Simon Middleburgh from Bangor University. Professor Edoardo Patelli from the University of Strathclyde brings much experience of quantitative uncertainty analysis, while Ewan Smith and David Webbe-Wood have provided research assistance to this book in all its aspects as well as to the EMEANSS project more generally

• Introduction.- Opportunity for a New Approach – History.- The Way Ahead.- Nuclear Power - Our Reference Technology.- Case example: chronic effects – graphite cracking.- Case example – acute accident scenario.- Wider application of the insights.- Summary and Conclusions.