Safeguard Assessment of Nanoscale Nuclear Material in Nuclear Power Plant Operations Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Production Function - Atomic Nanoscale Technology in the Nuclear Industry - page 124

Economic Factors of NPPs
(Power, Unit Number)

Analytic Hierarchy Process
(AHP)

Production Function
(Cobb-Douglas function) • C.R. (Consistency Ratio)

• Maximum Pair Value
• Reactor Number

Comparisons

FIGURE 10.6
Nuclear.Safeguard.Protocol.(NSP).

TABLE 10.13
Comparison.of.AH P.and.NPF

AHP NPF

Factor Multifactor.comparisons Power,.life,.and.refueling.time

Basic.element Random.sampling Random.sampling

Data.reliability Consistency.evaluation —

Result Maximum.pair.values.are.oscillating Cobb-Douglas.function.values.

are.steadily.increasing

Estimation Multifactors.are.considered.

simultaneously

Economic.factors.are.considered

The. expenses. for. safeguard. enhancements. have. increased. as. a. result. of.
actual.and.potential.terrorist.incidents..It.is,.however,.possible.to.save.funds.
by. simulating. cases. using. the. above. study.. In. addition,. the. NSF. can. be.
applied.in.other.industries.such.as.the.airline.or.chemical.industry,.for.better.
estimations.. However,. large-budget. industries. need. quantiied. regulations.
to. better. safeguard. operations,. and. terror. incidents. could. be. prevented. by.
the.technological.estimation.of.the.AHP.and.NPF.methods..Finally,.security.
management.in.the.nuclear.industry.could.be.modeled.using.this.study.