In conjunction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies in Africa (FNRBA), AdSTM participated in the subject workshop which was held at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria from June 7-10, 2016. The workshop was chaired by AdSTM and consisted of a series of presentations, participating country reports, and breakout sessions. The presentations focused on the status of development of selected SMR designs, the safety requirements in the USA, Canada and Korea, economic considerations as calculated by the Nuclear energy Agency (NEA) siting...
News from 2016
From May 16-19, 2016, AdSTM, Inc. conducted an IRDP workshop on the NRC Research and Test Reactors (RTR) Inspection Program for the Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) in Bangkok, Thailand. The audience was composed of OAP nuclear regulators from the Thailand Bureau of Nuclear Safety (BNSR), whose responsibility encompasses various aspects of research reactor oversight including inspection, program management, emergency response and security. The workshop was supported by AdSTM staff, Rich Holm, Mark Trump, and Tammy Way. Over the four-day workshop, instruction focused on the NRC approach for...
Richard Barrett, AdSTM, participated in a workshop on Advanced Capacity Building in Preparation and Response to Nuclear and Severe Radiological Accidents at College Station, Texas. The workshop was sponsored by the Nuclear Power Institute, an adjunct of the Nuclear Engineering Department of Texas A&M University.The workshop hosted 22 participants from countries with emerging nuclear power programs throughout Asia, Africa, South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The focus of the workshop was to provide hands-on experience with the practices of U.S nuclear utilities regarding...
AdSTM conducted a Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Workshop in Mombasa, Kenya from April 18 to April 21, 2016. The workshop was attended by representatives of regulatory authorities from a number of African countries who are members of FNRBA, and are interested in pursuing Nuclear Power as part of their strategy to meet the growing demand for energy in their respective countries. Mr. Richard Emch and Dr. Charles Miller conducted the workshop, and they covered the necessary prerequisites and processes for a regulatory body to have the infrastructure that will be necessary and complete, so that it...
From April 4-8, 2016, AdSTM staff conducted an IRDP workshop on Research and Test Reactor (RTR) regulation at the offices of the National Commission of Nuclear Activities Control (CNCAN) in Bucharest, Romania. The audience was composed of CNCAN regulators, operators of the TRIGA® SSR - 14 MW and TRIGA® ACPR research reactors at the Institute for Nuclear Research (ICN), whose responsibility encompasses various aspects of research reactor oversight including inspection, program management, emergency response and security.Over the four-day workshop, Adstm staff, Mark Trump, Steve Reese, and...
The 8th China-U.S. PSA Workshop on Risk-Informed Regulation and Safety Culture was held in Shenzhen, China on March 14-18, 2016. The meeting was organized jointly by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on behalf of DOE and by Suzhou Nuclear Power Research Institute of China. The Workshop, hosted by China National Energy Administration was attended by 69 participants who asked many informed questions. The Workshop attendees represented 21 different Chinese nuclear organizations, including personnel from nuclear power plants and the regulator.
A useful feature of this workshop was the...
From February 1-4, 2016, AdSTM, Inc. and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) conducted an IRDP workshop on Research and Test Reactors (RTR) at the Thailand Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) in Bangkok, Thailand. The audience was composed of operators of the Thailand Research Reactor (TRR-1/M1), a 1.3 MWth TRIGA® research reactor at the Thailand Institute for Nuclear Technology and OAP nuclear regulators from the Thailand Bureau of Nuclear Safety, whose responsibility encompasses various aspects of research reactor oversight including inspection, program management, emergency response...
From January 25-28, AdSTM, Inc. and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) conducted the IRDP workshop on Research and Test Reactors (RTR) for the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The audience was composed of regulators whose responsibility encompassed various aspects of research reactor oversight including inspection, program management, emergency response and security.The workshop was supported by Adstm staff, Mr. Rich Holm, Dr. Steve Reese, and Ms. Tammy Way; and Mr. John Nguyen and Mr. Gene Carpenter, both representing the NRC. Over the...
In conjunction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA), AdSTM participated in the subject workshop which was held at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria from January 12-15, 2016. The workshop was chaired by AdSTM and consisted of a series of presentations, participating country reports, and breakout sessions. The presentations focused on the status of development of selected SMR designs, the safety requirements in the USA, Canada and Korea, siting and environmental issues, and the historical licensing process in the USA, and its...
On January 19, 2016, AdSTM represented the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) at the U.S.-ASEAN Workshop on Civil Nuclear Power in Jakarta, Indonesia. The NRC’s Office of International Programs (OIP) was invited to attend the workshop by the U.S. Department of Energy and asked to make a presentation entitled, “The Need for an Independent, Transparent, and Expert Nuclear Regulator and Regulatory Frameworks.” The workshop was conducted jointly by DOE and the ASEAN Centre for Energy.From January 20-21, 2016, AdSTM attended the Nuclear Power Asia Conference representing the NRC’s...