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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
Yan Han, Karen K. Fujikawa, Inessa E. Berman, Sanjaybir Bakshi, David A. Suddaby (Westinghouse)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 60-66
U.S. NRC Regulatory Guide 1.20 requires plants to evaluate their steam dryers prior to implementation of extended power uprate (EPU). A high cycle fatigue analysis performed for the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) steam dryers showed that at four locations modifications to the OEM dryers were required to maintain safety margins at EPU conditions. Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC) performed the analyses of the steam dryer modifications. The scope and objective of this paper is to present the high cycle fatigue analysis that was performed to assess the structural integrity of the steam dryers with modifications subjected to acoustic loads.
