Olivier Nusbaumer
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Olivier Nusbaumer Dr. Ing. ETH SWITZERLAND Email: onusbaum(at)gmail.com |
Research Topics / Forschungsgebiete
- Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRA)
- Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
- Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD) with emphasis on nuclear safety applications
- Severe accident phenomenology
Education / Ausbildung
| 06/2007 | PhD thesis: "Analytical Solutions of Linked Fault Tree
Probabilistic Risk Assessments using Binary Decision Diagrams
with Emphasis on Nuclear Safety Applications" Examiner: Prof. Dr. W. Kröger, PSI / ETH Zurich Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. E. Zio, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy |
| 02/2001 | Master's thesis: "Studies of Severe Accidents using the
MELCOR Computer
Code" (Dr. M. Zeller, Prof. Dr. Emeritus G.
Yadigaroglu) Subject area: simulation, CFD, severe accident phenomenology, neutronic Final score: 6.00 - excellent |
| 03/1999 | Diploma in Mechanical Engineering ETH Zurich, main direction:
Nuclear Engineering (Prof. Dr.
Emeritus G. Yadigaroglu) Overall final score: 5.25 - very good |
| 08/1998 | Reactor and radiation school, PSI Villigen |
| 05/1998 | Practical training on the nuclear research reactor CROCUS, ETH Lausanne |
| 1997 – 1999 | Field of study in nuclear engineering and power plant technology (Kern-/ Kraftwerkstechnik), Nuclear Engineering Laboratory (Energy Technology), ETH Zurich |
| 1994 – 1999 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (D-MAVT) |
| 1994 | Military service in Dübendorf (ZH) |
| 1991 – 1994 | Maturity type C (mathematics/physics) in Porrentruy (JU) |
| 1980 – 1991 | Obligatory School |
Professional Career / Berufspraxis
| 2000 – ... | Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) analyst at the
Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL),
Switzerland: - Project team PSA Level 1 - Project manager PSA Level 2 - Project manager of the MELCOR / MELSIM computer code |
| 1999 – 2002 | Software and hardware engineer for Ontronic Engine Management Systems |
| 2001 | Development of the DECANS computer code |
| 1999 – 2000 | MELCOR model development (severe accident simulation), KKL / RMA Inc., CA, USA |
Committees and Memberships / Komitees und Mitgliedschaften
- Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Owners’ Group
- Swiss Nuclear Society (SNS)
- Swiss Nuclear Society Young Generation Group (SNS-YG), board between 2002 and 2004
- Open PSA
- Scientific editor at the Open Directory Project (ODP / DMOZ)
Selected Publications and Presentations / Auswahl Publikationen und Präsentationen
- "Analytical Solutions of Linked Fault Tree Probabilistic Risk Assessments using Binary Decision Diagrams with Emphasis on Nuclear Safety Applications", Diss. ETH No. 17286, 2007
- "Analytical Solutions of Seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessments", In Proc. ESREL Conf., 2005
- "New Algorithms for efficient SLIM and THERP Human Reliability Analysis Processing", BWR Owners’ Group, PSA Committee Meeting, 2004
- "Plant-Specific Reliability Data Update using Integrated Applications", RiskSpectrum Magazine, 2004
- "SAMG related insights gained by Level 2 PSA analysis", OECD Meeting on SAMI, In Proc., 2001
Olivier Nusbaumer, 2008
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