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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.
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1958: Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London.
1964: Received doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. Joined General Electric Company.
1967: Assigned by GE to study use of probability in nuclear power plant safety.
1969: Author of 2 Proprietary GE reports and paper in ANS Transactions on safety goals and probabilistic analysis of NPPs.
1974: NRC’s Office of Research. Lead revision of RSS consequence model, Appendix VI of WASH -1400.
1979-1990: EPRI. Organized Risk Assessment Program, which managed research supporting L1 and L2 PRAs, including seismic.
1999-2023: Member of ASME/ANS Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management.
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