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Regional Basic Professional Training Course in Korea

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<strong>Regional</strong> <strong>Basic</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> <strong>Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>Course</strong> (BPTC) on Nuclear Safety<br />

the database is rich <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>strumental <strong>in</strong>formation or when sufficient data exist to convert<br />

reliably from <strong>in</strong>tensity to magnitude. In this approach, attenuation relationships that<br />

express the ground motion parameter as a function of magnitude and distance from the<br />

site to the seismogenic source and site conditions are used.<br />

Determ<strong>in</strong>istic or probabilistic approaches may be used to determ<strong>in</strong>e design‐basis ground<br />

motion SL‐2. In the determ<strong>in</strong>istic approach, the maximum potential earthquake should be<br />

assumed to occur at the po<strong>in</strong>t on the seismogenic structure closest to the site. When the<br />

site is with<strong>in</strong> the boundaries of a seismogenic structure, the maximum potential<br />

earthquake shall be assumed to occur under the site. In this case, special care should be<br />

taken to demonstrate that the seismogenic structure is not capable. When the maximum<br />

potential earthquake is not associated with specific seismogenic structure <strong>in</strong> the<br />

seismotectonic prov<strong>in</strong>ce that <strong>in</strong>cludes the site, it is assumed to occur at some agreed<br />

specific distance from the site where it is assumed that seismogenic structure does not<br />

exist and that the probability of earthquake occurr<strong>in</strong>g is very low. This distance may be <strong>in</strong><br />

the range of a few, to tens of kilometres and depend on the best estimate of the focal<br />

depth. The probabilistic approach <strong>in</strong>volves the follow<strong>in</strong>g steps: idealization of the<br />

seismotectonic model <strong>in</strong> terms of source type, geometry and depth; for each source,<br />

identification of magnitude‐frequency or <strong>in</strong>tensity‐frequency relationships, maximum<br />

magnitude or maximum <strong>in</strong>tensity, attenuation relationships; choice of appropriate<br />

stochastic models; evaluation of the best estimate hazard curve with appropriate<br />

confidence <strong>in</strong>tervals; for design‐basis, use of those levels of ground motion where<br />

probabilities of be<strong>in</strong>g exceeded meet the safety standard required.<br />

The characteristics of the design‐basis ground motions for SL‐1 and SL‐2 shall be<br />

expressed <strong>in</strong> term of response spectra hav<strong>in</strong>g a range of damp<strong>in</strong>g values and compatible<br />

time histories. Several methods can be used to generate response spectra: standard<br />

response spectrum whose shape is obta<strong>in</strong>ed from many response spectra derived us<strong>in</strong>g<br />

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