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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Volume 2012, Article ID 176270, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/176270 Research Article Risk-Based Allowed Outage Time and Surveillance Test Interval Extensions for Angra 1 1 2 ´ 1 Sonia M. Orlando Gibelli, P. F. Frutuoso e Melo, and Sergio Q. Bogado Leite 1 Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, DRS/CGRC, 22294-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil ˜ 2 Programa de Engenharia Nuclear, COPPE/UFRJ, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Correspondence should be addressed to Sonia M. Orlando Gibelli, sonia@.br Received 27 February 2012; Accepted 7 May 2012 Academic Editor: Mohammad Modarres Copyright © 2012 Sonia M. Orlando Gibelli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In this work, Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) is used to evaluate Allowed Outage Times (AOT) and Surveillance Test Intervals (STI) extensions for three Angra 1 nuclear power plant safety systems. The interest in such an analysis lies on the fact that PSA comprises a risk-based tool for safety evaluation and has been increasingly applied to support both the regulatory and the operational decision-making processes. Regarding Angra 1, among other applications, PSA is meant to be an additional method that can be used by the utility to justify Technical Specification relaxation to the Brazilian regulatory body. The risk measure used in this work is the Core Da