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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session
Monday, November 8, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
George Apostolakis (Nuc Risk Res Center (Tokyo))
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fernando Ferrante (EPRI)
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Risk-Informed Process for Evaluations
12:40–1:10PM EST
Antonios M. Zoulis (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
Lessons Learned From Surveillance Test Interval Extension of Integrated Safeguards Actuation Test (ISAT) at Sizewell B
1:10–1:40PM EST
Ray Schneider (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Gary Douglas (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Kyle Hope (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ashlyn Fornear (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Marinos Panayiotou (Corporate Risk Associates), Christopher Sharrock (EDF Energy)
Research Activities Associated With the Treatment of Potential Common-Cause Failures in Event and Condition Assessment
1:40–2:10PM EST
Christopher Hunter (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Ching Ng (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Mehdi Reisi Fard (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Zhegang Ma (INL), Sai Zhang (INL)
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Working Group WGRISK Current Activities -- An Overview
2:10–2:40PM EST
Marina Roewekamp (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute), Michelle Gonzalez (U. S. Regulatory Commission Office for Research), Jörg Peschke (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
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