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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|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods (Advanced Methods and Tools)
Thursday, July 20, 2023|8:00–9:30AM EDT|300C
Session Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
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Zooming over PSA Models: Reducing PSA Models Without Loss of Generality
8:00–8:25AM EDT
M. Hibti (EDF), M. Hasseni (Assystem), N. Villatte (EDF)
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Grouping and Initial Evaluation of Case Studies for Integrated Safety Assessment in the European BESEP Project
8:25–8:50AM EDT
Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute), Tamas Siklossy (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute), Pavol Hlavac (RELKO Engineering and Consulting Services), Zoltan Kovacs (RELKO Engineering and Consulting Services)
Prioritizing Security Target Sets Using Risk-Informed Analysis
8:50–9:15AM EDT
Ricky Summitt (ENERCON)
Safety Margin Quantification by Integrating Probabilistic and Deterministic Safety Assessments -- A Demonstration Example
9:15–9:40AM EDT
Shizhen Yu (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Pierre-Etienne Labeau (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel ENGIE)
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