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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by YMG
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT|2
Session Chair:
Milos Atz (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Alisha A. Kasam-Griffith (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Track Organizer:
Timothy M. Crook (MCR)
Staff Producer:
Eileen Cullen (American Nuclear Society)
Experts across many disciplines face challenges in communicating with the public about issues of safety and risk. Particularly in the arena of nuclear technologies, technical complexity and widespread misinformation can increase the barriers to effective communication. In this panel session, nuclear professionals will discuss their strategies for facilitating clear, informative, and honest conversations with non-experts about safety and risk in nuclear, and about the positive role of nuclear technologies in our communities.
Matt Bucknor
ANL
Heather Hoff
Mothers For Nuclear
Monica Trauzzi
Nuclear Energy Institute
Katie Mummah
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nick Touran
What is Nuclear, LLC
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