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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)
Mr. Fleming is an internationally recognized expert in the development and application PRA technology. He was the 2021 recipient of the ANS Tommy Thompson Award for Lifetime Achievements to Nuclear Safety and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020. Mr. Fleming is 2018 Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He is a member of the ASME/ANS Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management, a co-author of the ASME/ANS PRA Standard, a principal author of the ASME/ANS PRA Standard for Advanced non-LWRs, and a principal contributor to the industry led Licensing Modernization Project. He started his career during the time of the Reactor Safety Study while performing the first PRA on High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors at General Atomic, where he was responsible for developing the Beta Factor Method of common cause failure analysis and performing the first internal fire PRA.
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