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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Matthew Bucknor (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
David S. Grabaskas
Staff Producer:
John Fabian (American Nuclear Society)
Panel to discuss the current VTR safety strategy and how it is being implemented among various analysis/design groups including the VTR Safety Analysis, Safety Basis, PRA, and Experiment teams. Presentations from panelists will be followed by an open Q&A session with the audience.
Thomas Fanning
Argonne National Laboratory
Jason Andrus
Idaho National Laboratory
Kevan Weaver
David Grabaskas
ANL
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