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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.
John Bistline, Revis James, Andrew Sowder (EPRI)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 981-987
This analysis investigates the conditions under which nuclear power could play a role in future markets. This study uses EPRI’s U.S. Regional Economy, Greenhouse Gas, and Energy (US-REGEN) energy-economic model to explore tradeoffs across a range of assumptions about technologies, markets, and policies. Model results suggest that advanced nuclear could be economically competitive across a range of scenarios and that there are several key drivers that may influence deployment, including energy and environmental policies (e.g., emissions pricing), additional revenue streams (e.g., process heat sales), region-specific factors (e.g., policies, existing asset mixes, transmission), and advanced nuclear capital costs. Market opportunities depend on a combination of these factors, which impact the competitiveness of nuclear relative to other electric sector resources and require modeling to evaluate. Without new policies, extensive deployment of nuclear would require innovation either in technologies to significantly lower costs or in business models to provide supplemental revenue streams. With policies targeting emissions reductions, the presence of technologies like advanced nuclear can reduce compliance costs. However, simultaneous cost reductions for other generation options, especially dispatchable low-carbon technologies, will challenge advanced nuclear for competitive advantage and market share.