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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Seunghwan Kim, Yochan Kim, Sun Yeong Choi, Wondea Jung, Jinkyun Park (KAERI)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 273-278
A fundamental issue of a human reliability analysis (HRA) in a nuclear power plant is a lack of empirical data in terms of both human error probability (HEP) and lower level information of human performance that can be used to estimate HEPs. As an effort to resolve this issue, KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) developed a framework, called HuREX (Human Reliability data Extraction), for data collection and analysis from a simulator to generate HRA data such as HEPs or correlations between performance shaping factors (PSFs) and the associated HEPs. The HuREX provides guidance on unsafe act (UA) identification, method and process of data collection.
To do this, the development of a computerized software interface is required to systematically collect simulator-based human performance data and subsequently enter/analyze/quantify various data obtained from the simulator. In addition, HRA database is also needed to effectively store the data generated in this process. In this research, we developed HuREX analysis supporting interface for HRA practitioner effectively conduct HRA data analysis by integrating various raw data (e.g., audio-visual records, plant parameters, operator's action logs) collected from the simulator.