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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session|Panel
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Robert W. Youngblood
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Dennis W. Henneke
This panel will focus on two complementary undertakings: (1) RAMI (Reliability Availability Maintainability Inspectability), and (2) RIM (Reliability Integrity Management). Both involve setting targets for their respective “ilities” and managing plants to meet those targets. Setting those targets to address multiple objectives (safety, availability, cost, …) is challenging, because to some extent those objectives compete. Panelists will focus on experience in meeting that challenge.
Nathan DeKett
GE
Joon-Eon YANG
KAERI
Todd Anselmi
INL
David Blanchard
AREI