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The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
17th International ANS Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis 2021 (PSA21)
Virtual Meeting
Since 1978, the ANS biennial topical conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment has been a forum for communication of major probabilistic risk and safety topics worldwide, including issues, methods, applications, insights, policy, research, and risk-informed regulation experience. PSA21 will be of interest to those working in traditional applications including nuclear reactor facilities, nonreactor installations, processing, decontamination & decommissioning, storage, as well as other nontraditional areas where probabilistic safety approaches are applied. Topics of discussion are anticipated to include advanced and small modular reactor (SMR), Fukushima Daiichi, advanced reactor, multi-unit and full site PSA, the human interface and HRA, reliability of systems/structures/components, waste cleanup, natural phenomena, security, dry storage and fire risk, as well as many others. The role of probabilistic methods in understanding uncertainties and improving the safety and security of nuclear facilities, and activities will be highlighted.
PSA 2021 is attended by decision-makers, regulators, project managers, business sector, scientists, engineers, students and educators from throughout the world who are engaged in one or more topical areas associated with PSA. By selecting this conference, you will have the opportunity to network with leaders in the probabilistic and nuclear safety assessment field, as well as discuss your products, services, and organization.
$15,000 Organizational Participant
Includes all the benefits of the $7,500 package PLUS:
• A prerecorded three-minute video supplied by your company will play at the start of one of the Plenary Sessions (limited to first two organizations)
• 50 complimentary meeting registrations for employees or members of your organization
$7,500 Organizational Participant
Includes all the benefits of the $5,000 package PLUS:
• Plenary title slide with company logo recognition displayed before the session (limited to first two organizations)
• 15 complimentary meeting registrations for employees or members of your organization
$5,000 Organizational Participant
• Exclusive banner at positions on the PSA online platform
• Five complimentary meeting registrations for employees or members of your organization
• Company logo linked to description page to include an optional three-minute video and link to your website
• Complimentary virtual exhibitor booth
• Organizational Participant recognition on marketing emails and social media channels promoting the virtual meeting
• PSA 2021 attendee list (will only include those who opted to share their contact info)
Around 300 probabilistic and nuclear safety analysts, engineers, educators, regulators, government officials, consultants and policy-makers from around the world attend the PSA series of technical exchange and networking conferences. With over two hundred oral and poster presentations, coupled with one-of-a-kind panel sessions scheduled over a six-day period, you cannot afford to miss this unique chance to showcase your organization.
Major industry, government and consulting organizations, and university departments that are actively engaged in the nuclear safety field will be present at PSA21. Attendees from the U.S. and approximately 20 other nations will be attending virtually.
Your organization has a unique opportunity to showcase your brand in terms of products and services related to nuclear facility safety, consulting and analytical services, software applications, and related, science and technology, especially those that make a strategic difference in risk-informing nuclear processes, activities, and systems, and ultimately helping improve safety and efficiency.
New in PSA21 are opportunities for non-profit nuclear science and technology organizations, national laboratory and academic institutions to actively engage in PSA21 and be represented in PSA21 Exhibits Area. Along with a booth the benefits at this level include one full conference registration for non-profit organizations and either one full conference registration for a university educator, or two full student conference registrations for an academic institution.
Get the PSA2021 Prospectus
More Information:John Greenwood, PSA21 Finance Chair Phone: +1.724.730.1608 (preferred), or:+1.405.760.5882(off-business hours) Email:johngreenw@gmail.com
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