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1. What features are essential in an expert system responsible for the safety of something as potentially dangerous as a nuclear power plant?

In the nuclear power industry, a popular assessment technique used is probabilistic safety analysis (PSA), which enables engineers to assess the probability and consequences of potential plant safety-related problems. PSA creates and interprets fault-tree diagrams, a graphical model illustrating the pathways within a system with logical constructs such as AND and OR. Following the pathways through the system can identify weaknesses and points of failure.

2. What characteristics of the process of probabilistic safety analysis do you think led TEPCO to believe it that could be automated in an expert system?

A TEPCO safety engineer might take days or even weeks to work through a fault-tree analysis. This tedious process struck TEPCO management as one that was idea for automation. Gensym Corporation worked......

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