4.42. In earlier publications (e.g. Ref. [26]), the term ‘safety assessment’ was used to describe assessment focused on the radiological impacts of the facility: @@@@- Safety assessment was defined as the overall process of performing quantitative assessments of the radiological impact of the facility for the period after closure. This included development of the context for the assessment and description of the disposal system and its environment, as well as interpretation of the results. However, in terms of the broader context for the safety case, as illustrated in Fig. 2, these elements are considered part of the overall safety case and are not only part of the quantitative safety assessment. Addressing these elements in the broader context of the safety case does not represent any change of the actual methodology for the performance of quantitative assessments as discussed in Ref. [26]; the approaches developed in those publications are now integrated into the broader context of the safety case.