Technical Strengths

Risk assessment services technical strengths at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) include:

Environmental risk and hazard assessment
Probabilistic performance assessment and risk analysis
Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
Risk assessment software development
Integrated safety assessments

Technical strengths in radiation health physics include:

Contaminant exposure pathway, dose assessment and dose reconstruction
Airborne transport of radioactivity
Radiation monitoring and instrumentation
Decommissioning and decontamination
Safety criticality and radiation shielding
Spent fuel characterization

For more information about our risk assessment capabilities, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Dr. Osvaldo Pensado, opensado@swri.org, (210) 522-6084, or Dr. Sitakanta Mohanty, smohanty@swri.org, (210) 522-5158.

Contact Information

Dr. Osvaldo Pensado

Group Manager

(210) 522-6084

opensado@swri.org

Dr. Sitakanta Mohanty

Institute Engineer

Engineering and System Assessment

(210) 522-5158

smohanty@swri.org

Related Terminology

probabilistic risk assessment

system hazards evaluation

risk assessment services

environmental risk

operational and infrastructure safety

oil exploration and production

gas exploration and production

geotechnical instability risk

system behavior models

natural hazard assessments

probabilistic safety assessments

performance assessments

uncertainty and sensitivity analyses

seismic risk

soil-structure interactions

risk from radioactive waste disposal

facility decommissioning risks

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Southwest Research Institute^®(SwRI^®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

August 18, 2011