# \[Cancelled\] 4th Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty International Conference (BEPU 2021)

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**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://uqworld.org/t/cancelled-4th-best-estimate-plus-uncertainty-international-conference-bepu-2021/229 "2019-09-19T10:43:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![damarginal](https://uqworld.org/user_avatar/uqworld.org/damarginal/32/73_2.png) [@damarginal](https://uqworld.org/u/damarginal)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://uqworld.org/t/cancelled-4th-best-estimate-plus-uncertainty-international-conference-bepu-2021/229/1 "2019-09-19T10:43:18Z")

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The **4th Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty International Conference** ([BEPU 2021](http://www.nineeng.com/bepu2020/)) will be held in Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy on ~~May 17-22, 2020~~.

The BEPU 2020 Conference has been postponed. According to the official [website](http://www.nineeng.com/bepu2020/):

> Due to the current situation of Corona Virus and based on the results of the survey we have decided to postpone the BEPU2020 conference to ** ~~October 11-17, 2020~~ May 30 to June 5, 2021.**

The objective of the BEPU conference is to provide a platform to exchange experiences and views among nuclear industry professionals in the development and use of the _Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty_ (BEPU) methods in the safety analyses and design of nuclear installations.

> _ **What is BEPU?** _
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> In case you’re wondering… BEPU, or Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty, is an approach to evaluate the safety of nuclear power plants. In a nutshell, the approach combines predictions made by best-estimate computer code with uncertainty analysis to quantify the uncertainty of the code predictions. BEPU should, therefore, provide a more realistic estimate of the plant responses under transients and it often results in a higher margin to the acceptance criterion imposed by the nuclear safety regulatory body. Before BEPU, all analyses have to be made with conservative (less realistic) code under conservative (pessimistic) assumptions.

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**Author:** ![giansteve](https://uqworld.org/user_avatar/uqworld.org/giansteve/32/973_2.png) [@giansteve](https://uqworld.org/u/giansteve)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 6:57am UTC](https://uqworld.org/t/cancelled-4th-best-estimate-plus-uncertainty-international-conference-bepu-2021/229/2 "2022-01-28T06:57:05Z")

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**Author:** ![giansteve](https://uqworld.org/user_avatar/uqworld.org/giansteve/32/973_2.png) [@giansteve](https://uqworld.org/u/giansteve)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 6:59am UTC](https://uqworld.org/t/cancelled-4th-best-estimate-plus-uncertainty-international-conference-bepu-2021/229/3 "2022-01-28T06:59:16Z")

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The conference has been canceled.

From the organizer:

> **After careful consideration of the ongoing worldwide spread of COVID-19 and the current trend of the vaccination campaign, we have decided to not conduct BEPU-2020 (which was already postponed twice) in Giardini Naxos next May 2021. BEPU-2020 is thus definitively cancelled and we will organize the next edition in 2023 with a call-for-papers planned to be announced by the end of 2021.**

More information on the [website](http://www.nineeng.com/bepu2020/).