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Developing a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors: Update on Part 53
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The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) on March 29 held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. The presenter, Patrick White with the Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA), talked about the current status of efforts to develop a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors—known as 10 CFR Part 53 or simply Part 53. White serves as the research director of the NIA, where he leads their research as well as analysis-based stakeholder and policymaker engagement and education. White’s March 29 presentation is publicly available on YouTube and at ANS’s publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR).
RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the CoP with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C before he welcomed White as the session’s presenter.
White covered three main topics: the history of the existing regulatory frameworks for new reactors, progress to date on the development of the Part 53 rule for advanced reactors, and the current status and next steps for the Part 53 rulemaking process.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Alexander J. Huning (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
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Quantifying the Likelihood of Nuclear Supply Chain Shortage Risk
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Daniel Nevius (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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Availability Evaluation of HP-STMCs Space Nuclear Reactor Power System
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Xinyan Xu (Univ. Science and Technology of China), Changhong Peng (Univ. Science and Technology of China)
Probabilistic Safety Assessment Methodology for the Transportation of Radioactive Material
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Manorma Kumar (Polytechnic Univ. Catalonia), Guillem Cortes-Rossell (Polytechnic Univ. Catalonia)
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Risk-Informed Opportunities and Challenges for Microreactors
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Alexander J. Huning (ORNL), David E. Shropshire (INL), Efe Kurt (INL)
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