During the week of May 18-22, 2015, the NRC’s IRDP conducted a Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Workshop for the Seventh meeting of the FNRBA thematic working group on regulatory infrastructure for nuclear power plants (TWG3-NPPs) in Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop covered the general contents and uses of PRAs for nuclear power plants. At the request of the participants, the instructors presented aspects of fire PRA and risk-informed decision making. The scheduled content of the workshop included risk assessment bases, PRA basics, event tree basics, fault tree basics, component...
News from 2015
On May 19-21, 2015 Sergey Katsenelenbogen and David Squarer (AdSTM/NRC-IRDP), Eric Stahl (NRC/OIP) and John Nguyen (NRC/NRR) attended Vietnam’s 2nd National Nuclear Regulatory Conference held at Da Lat City Vietnam. The Conference was organized by Vietnam’s nuclear regulatory body Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) and was attended by members of numerous Vietnamese organizations and ministries that deal with and license nuclear technology and related environmental considerations, as well as by several foreign delegates from Russia, Japan, Korea, France, Germany, IAEA,...
On May 3-4, Tammy Way (Adstm), the new Director of the International Regulatory Development Partnership (IRDP), supported a series of management meetings with Tamer Kasht, Director, Communications & International Cooperation, Jordanian Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission EMRC. These meetings were conducted in conjunction with the new two-day workshop on the “Practical Basics of Mechanical, Welding and Nondestructive Examination, and Electrical”; presented by Bob Gramm and Bill Bateman. The purpose of these management meetings were: (1) a courtesy visit to make introductions, (2) to...
On May 3 – 4, 2015, Bill Bateman and Bob Gramm of AdSTM provided a new workshop on the “Practical Basics of Mechanical, Welding and Nondestructive Examination, and Electrical” in Amman, Jordan. Workshop participants included staff from: the Jordanian Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC); the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC); government agencies affiliated with JAEC (JAEC/JRTR and JAEC/JNPC); and Mostaqbal (Jordanian Technical Support Organization for JAEC). TheAdSTM instructors presented basic information related to nuclear power plant mechanical components, welding...
During the week of March 23-27, 2015, the NRC’s IRDP participated in a workshop (7th China-U.S. PSA Workshop) with contributions from Sarah Lennon (Department of Energy), Lee Gebert (Argonne National Laboratory), Earnest Kee (South Texas Project), and Zahra Mohaghegh, Tatsuya Sakurahara, and Justin Pence (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Glenn Kelly and Weidong He from AdSTM, LLC. The workshop covered the general principles and applications of risk-informed regulation and risk-informed decision making. The host of the workshop was the China National Energy Administration,...
From 28 to 30 April, 2015, John Kinneman of AdSTM attended the 6th Meeting of the Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies in Africa (FNRBA) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The Egyptian Nuclear & Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) made the logistical arrangements; the meeting was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); a representative of the African Union Commission attended and actively participated. The current elected Chairman of the FNRBA, Dr. Augustin Simo, General Manager of the National Radiation Protection Agency in Cameroon lead the meeting with active...
From January 18-22, 2015, the AdSTM conducted a Siting Review Workshop at the offices of the Energy and Mineral Regulatory Commission (EMRC) in Amman, Jordan. Mr. Richard Emch of AdSTM and Mr. Stewart Bland of Chesapeake Nuclear Services conducted the training. The workshop was attended by 20 people from the EMRC, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), Ministry of Environment (MOENV), and Jordan Energy Resources, Inc. (JERI). The opening session of the workshop was attended by Dr. Majd Hawwari of EMRC and Dr. Khaled Toukan and Dr. Wa’il Y. Abu-El-Sha’r of JAEC. JAEC is examining several...
AdSTM conducted a consultation with NNR from January 5 to January 9, 2015 to provide assistance in the further development of their inspector qualification program. The consultation was performed as a result of a request by NNR to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as part of support to South Africa under the IRDP. The consultation was conducted by Dr. Charles Miller and Mr. Robert Gramm, and consisted of detailed reviews of South African Legislation, NNR regulations, policy documents, sample inspection reports, license applications, and licenses, and a number of interviews with NNR chief...
On December 17, 2014, Mr. Skip Young participated in the Texas A&M University Nuclear Power Institute’s Interregional Group Fellowship Workshop on Nuclear Power. The four week program focused on providing a basic knowledge of nuclear sciences and engineering. The program was built around the nineteen issues identified in the International Atomic Energy Agency "Milestones" document for new entry Member States that are considering the use of nuclear power for the first time. A central element was the need for an independent regulator and the importance of the safety culture. Topics for the...