For that reason, nuclear power plants, the pharmaceutical industry and aeronautics find uses for the fault tree analysis.

What to do with a nuclear plant on a fault line The US and Japan take notably different approaches.

Fault Tree Analysis and Reliability Engineering Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Fault Tree Analysis and Reliability Engineering.

The Japanese press has reported that Japan's head nuclear regulatory commissioner, Shunichi Tanaka, said he'll recommend shutting down Oi if the results of the fault analysis come back ``black or ...