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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.
Plenary Session|Panel
Wednesday, February 5, 2025|8:00–9:40AM EST|Magnolia EFG
SPEAKER
Amanda L. Donges
Panel
Sola Talabi
Christy Rasmussen
Christine Csizmadia
Sue Magidson
Dr. Olivia Blackmon
Join us as the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations shares a new approach to training in the industry. We will also hear from an expert panel as to what we can do collectively to ensure that our academic pipelines thrive as the nuclear energy industry expands and thrives over the next few decades.
Olivia Blackmon
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Vanderbilt
Pittsburgh Technical
Energy Northwest
Nuclear Energy Institute
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