Radiation Protection Glossary
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Credible
The term 'credible' is used in a number of areas of Radiation Protection
, including Risk Assessments
, Safety Cases and Probabilistic Safety Assessments
. Credible can be taken to mean an incident or accident which is thought to be Reasonably Foreseeable
. Credible can be expressed numerically and this value will differ depending on the situation being assessed (but perhaps in the range of 10-5 to 10-6).
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