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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Panel
Thursday, November 11, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Mohammad Modarres (Univ Maryland)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Carol S. Smidts (OSU)
Session Producer:
Nora Fitton
The Fukushima Daiichi accident highlighted the importance of risks from multiple nuclear reactor unit accidents at a site. As a result, there has been considerable interest in Multi-Unit Probabilistic Risk Assessment (MUPRA) and developments in the past few years. This panel discusses the status, related issues, and recent developments in MUPRA. Specifically, such topics as site risk metrics, risk aggregation, inter-unit dependency, and common cause modeling, safety goals, external event hazard and fragility treatments, industry, regulatory and international experiences in the context of MUPRA will be discussed. Panelists: M. Modarres, UMD (Chair); G. Apostolakis (NRRC); O. Coman (IAEA); F. Ferrante (EPRI); K. Fleming (KNF Consulting); M. Röwekamp (GRS)
George Apostolakis
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Ovidiu Coman
IAEA
Fernando Ferrante
EPRI
Karl Fleming
KMF
Marina Rowekamp
GRS
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