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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)
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|300A
Session Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang (RPI)
Alternate Chair:
Valentin Rychkov
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Importance Measure for Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Cost Savings for Safety Systems and Components
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Tunc Aldemir (Ohio State), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Paper
Statecharts as a Dynamic Method for Risk Assessment.
10:25–10:50AM EDT
V. Rychkov (EDF), C. Picoco (EDF), C. Massoulier (EDVANCE), R. Roy (EDVANCE)
High-Performance Computing Implementation for ADS-IDAC
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Alp Tezbasaran (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Dynamic Fuzzy Reliability and Safety Assessment of Passive Safety Systems in Small Modular Reactors
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Parham Khosravi Babadi (Univ. Ontario Institute of Technology), Lixuan Lu (Univ. Ontario Institute of Technology)
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