AdSTM presented a Construction Permit (CP) Application Review Workshop on September 7-11, 2015 in Bucharest, Romania. The Romanian nuclear regulatory authority, the National Commission for Nuclear Activities Control (CNCAN) hosted the workshop. AdSTM instructors, David Squarer and Mel Fields, delivered the USNRC/ IRDP course. The CP application review course was very well attended and represented a diverse audience from various nuclear organizations. Approximately forty attendees from seven Romanian organizations participated in the five-day workshop including: CNCAN, UPB the University of...
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AdSTM conducted a second consultation with NNR from September 15 to September 22, 2015 to provide additional assistance in the development of a revised inspector qualification program. The consultation was performed as a result of a request by NNR to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as part of the support to South Africa under the IRDP. The consultation was conducted by Dr. Charles Miller and Mr. John Kinneman, and consisted of a series of discussions with NNR senior management and interviews with a small sample of NNR inspectors. Following the discussions AdSTM developed a set of...
From August 16-18, 2015, the AdSTM conducted an Environmental Assessment Workshop at the offices of the Energy and Mineral Regulatory Commission (EMRC) in Amman, Jordan. Mr. Richard Emch (AdSTM) and Mr. Stewart Bland (Chesapeake Nuclear Services) provided training to twenty individuals representing various organizations including the EMRC, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), Ministry of Environment (MOENV), KEPCO E&C, and Dar Al-Handsah. KEPCO E&C, JAEC’s contractor, is responsible for developing the Site Safety Analysis and Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed nuclear...
On August 17-21, 2015, the AdSTM hosted nuclear engineers representing the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) in Vienna, VA, where they received training on how to perform a regulatory review of Safety Analysis Reports (SAR) and Construction Permit Application. The course was delivered by David Squarer, Mel Fields, and Weidong He of AdSTM.The AdSTM instructors tailored the training course to the specific interests expressed by VARANS participants, which included: site evaluation including seismic safety assessment, safety analysis chapters in the SAR, and legal documents...
From June 1-5, 2015, Dr. Charles L. Miller, Principal Nuclear Safety Consultant, AdSTM supported a workshop that was sponsored by the Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) and the Arab Network of Nuclear Regulators (ANNuR). The workshop was held at KINS offices in Daejeon, Korea. Dr. Miller presented three lectures that covered the safety, regulation and licensing of radioactive sources in the United States of America (USA). He answered many questions from the attendees, who came from 11 Arab countries .He also supported a discussion at the KINS nuclear plant simulator on the design and...
On May 18-21, 2015, Jack Ramsey (NRC/OIP), Jennifer Holtzer (NRC/OIP), and Tammy Way (AdSTM/IRDP) participated in the 7th Regulatory Cooperation Forum (RCF) held in Brussels, Belgium. In June 2010, the RCF was established with the goal of providing a forum for regulators to meet and discuss opportunities to promote collaboration and cooperation to improve coordination among Member States with an established nuclear program (“providers)” and those members (“recipients”) considering the introduction or expansion of nuclear power within their countries. Over twenty-two countries were...
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...
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...