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UW-Madison: A Midwestern nucleus of fission and fusion
With more than six decades as a top-ranked program in its rearview, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is hardly slowing down. In fact, NEEP is continuing to grow and develop its faculty, curriculum, and research.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by HFICD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|El Capitan B
Session Chair:
Edward L. Quinn
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Richard T. Wood
Major activities in updating standards for digital I&C are occurring worldwide, for both operating reactor upgrades and also SMR and advanced reactor deployment. This panel will focus on the standard updates and new standards and regulations that are being issued to address the multiple regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and around the world. Panelists will represent the standards organizations (ANS, IEEE, IEC) as well as regulators, NEI and international for the range of subjects that are included in these upgrades including Defense-In-Depth and Diversity, Human Factors Engineering and advanced methods of applying risk insights.
Edward Quinn
Paragon Energy Solutions
Richard Wood
Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville
Michael Rowland
Sandia
Alan Campbell
Nuclear Energy Institute