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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Jon Facemire is a Senior Project Manager in the New Nuclear group at NEI where he focuses on risk-informed licensing. Jon leads the New Nuclear Engineering Working Group, the Part 53 Task Force, the Licensing Modernization Project (LMP) Task Force, and the Advanced Reactor PRA Task Force. Prior to joining NEI, Jon was spent 2 years as a licensing manager at X-Energy developing their LMP-based Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) and over a decade at Jensen Hughes supporting risk-informed applications for the operating fleet.
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