TY  - JOUR
A1  - Musson, R. M. W.
A1  - Toro, G. R.
A1  - Coppersmith, Kevin J.
A1  - Bommer, Julian J.
A1  - Deichmann, N.
A1  - Bungum, Hilmar
A1  - Cotton, Fabrice Pierre
A1  - Scherbaum, Frank
A1  - Slejko, Dario
A1  - Abrahamson, Norman A.
T1  - Evaluating hazard results for Switzerland and how not to do it : a discussion of "Problems in the application of the SSHAC probability method for assessing earthquake hazards at Swiss nuclear power plants" by J-U Klugel
N2  - The PEGASOS project was a major international seismic hazard study, one of the largest ever conducted anywhere in the world, to assess seismic hazard at four nuclear power plant sites in Switzerland. Before the report of this project has become publicly available, a paper attacking both methodology and results has appeared. Since the general scientific readership may have difficulty in assessing this attack in the absence of the report being attacked, we supply a response in the present paper. The bulk of the attack, besides some misconceived arguments about the role of uncertainties in seismic hazard analysis, is carried by some exercises that purport to be validation exercises. In practice, they are no such thing; they are merely independent sets of hazard calculations based on varying assumptions and procedures, often rather questionable, which come up with various different answers which have no particular significance. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Y1  - 2005
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13465
ER  -