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ANS’s webinar on RIPB design in the NuScale US460
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speaker: Kent Welter, a member of the ANS Standards Board and chief engineer of testing and analysis at NuScale, who presented “RIPB Design and Licensing of the NuScale US460 Small Modular Reactor.”
Watch the full webinar here.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021 Speaker
1987 Joined Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc.
1990 Nuclear Power Technology Group, Nuclear Power Generation Dept., TEPCO Head Office
1998 TEPCO Washington D.C. Office
2004 Group Manager, Nuclear Reactor Safety Group, Nuclear Power Technology, Safety and Quality Dept., TEPCO Head Office
2007 Licensed Senior Engineer of Reactor Safety, Fukushima Daiichi NPS
2009 General Manager, Maintenance Dept., Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS
2012 Group Manager, Nuclear Security ＆Industrial Safety Management Group, Nuclear Power Plant Management Dept., TEPCO Head Office
2016 Deputy Superintendent of Fukushima Daiichi NPS, FDEC
2018 Temporarily assigned to Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)
2020 Superintendent, Safety and Quality Office, FDEC
2021 Current Position
Tatsuya Taminami is Executive Vice President of Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC).
He joined Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. in 1987 and he has long experience in the reactor safety assessment area, as well as in emergency preparedness and nuclear security.
Since 2020, when he was Superintendent of the Safety and Quality Office in FDEC, he has been responsible for maintaining and improving safety and quality in decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi.
His mission now is to reduce risk at Fukushima Daiichi steadily by proceeding with many projects in a safe and timely manner.
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