The Safety Regulation of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants: Violations, Inspections, and Abnormal Occurrences
利用美国核监管委员会上千次检查数据，用泊松模型分析检查期间违规发生率，研究违规因素、电厂排名、检查员检测率差异及未检测违规与异常事件的关系。
Data from more than one-thousand inspections by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission form the basis for an investigation into the nature of safety regulation at U.S. commercial nuclear reactors. Poisson (and binary choice) models of the rate of occurrence of violations during each inspection period are specified, and are extended to control for nondetection and for the possibility that violations persist from one inspection to the next. These models are used to study the factors associated with noncompliance, relative rankings of plants according to propensity to violate, the variation in detection rates among Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors, and the relationship between undetected violations and abnormal occurrences. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press.