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A webinar, and a new opportunity to take ANS’s CNP Exam
Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
Takeshi Matsuoka, Michiyuki Kobayashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 64-78
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23526
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A reliability analysis methodology, GO-FLOW, is presented. Detailed explanations and two examples of GO-FLOW analysis are given. The GO-FLOW is a success-oriented system analysis technique. The modeling technique produces the GO-FLOW chart, which is composed of operators and signal lines and represents a function of the system. A signal does not represent a “change of condition” but some physical quantity or information. The intensity of a signal represents the probability of actual or potential existence of a physical quantity, the probability that some information exists, or a time interval between two successive time points. The examples of analysis show the applicability of the GO-FLOW method to a phased mission problem (a boiling water reactor emergency core cooling system) and to a time-dependent unavailability analysis (a pressurized water reactor auxiliary feedwater system). The GO-FLOW has proved to be a valuable and useful tool for system reliability analysis.