ANS Standards Committee responds to the industry’s need for PRA and RIPB methodology

September 20, 2021, 12:04PMNuclear Newsthe Standards Committee
An artist’s rendering of the NuScale plant. (Image: NuScale)

For more than two decades, the American Nuclear Society’s Standards Committee has recognized the benefit of incorporating risk-informed and performance-based (RIPB) methodology into ANS standards to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency. In general, standards using RIPB methods with properly identified and structured objectives need less modification and can be expected to remain valid for much longer periods.

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