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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
N. Prasad Kadambi
Alternate Chair:
Robert W. Youngblood
Session Organizer:
Andrew J. Clark
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
RIPB ideas are widely accepted in principle, but have so far realized only part of their full potential. In the operating fleet, licensing processes were originally developed based on Design Basis Accident considerations; RIPB ideas have been applied only perturbatively, generally in order to justify license modifications or enforcement decisions. Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is finding increased use as a way to consider nuclear reactor design, construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning in a continuum of processes rather than compartmentalized activities. This should enable better use of RIPB methods for more useful consensus standards. The ANS has been making progress within the Standards Committee to improve standards development using some aspects of this approach. The panel discussion will consider application of RIPB approaches in other domains, its nexus with Model-Based Systems Engineering, and how best to reflect RIPB principles in consensus standards.
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