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November 8–12, 2025
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FPoliSolutions demonstrates RISE, an RIPB systems engineering tool
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 October 3 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 speakers: Mike Mankosa, a project engineer at FPoliSolutions, and Cesare Frepoli, the company’s president, who together presented “Introduction to RISE: A Digital Framework for Maintaining a Risk-Informed Safety Case for Current and Next Generation Nuclear Power Plants.”
Watch the full webinar here.
D. Wootan, R. Omberg, A. Casella, N. Lahaye, B. Mcdowell (PNNL), W. Stokes (Columbia Basin Consulting Group)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 36-44
The accident scenarios that need to be analyzed within Chapter 15 of a safety analysis report may vary significantly between advanced reactors and the light water reactors that compose the current commercial fleet. In anticipation of identifying scenarios of concern and developing methods for their analysis, correlations may be made to calculations and tests performed in support of the liquid metal and molten salt reactors that have been operated previously within the US. In this paper, we discuss efforts made to compare Chapter 15 considerations for a proposed lead-bismuth cooled reactor to those developed previously for the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) and the GE-Hitachi PRISM reactor. Comparisons were also made with Beyond Design Basis Accidents for FFTF.