TH36 Risk-Informed Decisions: Oversight and Operations

This session will provide perspectives from NRC and industry representatives on current best practices, initiatives, and approaches to operations and oversight of nuclear power plants, in today’s risk-informed and focused environment. How are the risk-informed initiatives helping shape future operations and decisionmaking? What are some inspection best practices and focus areas that help shape what risk-informed decisionmaking looks like from an oversight perspective? The conversation will work from the base assumption that the industry and regulator share a common goal of focusing on the most safety-significant operations. To ensure we are focused on the most important safety issues, we must use risk principles, including probabilistic risk insights. The panelists (three to four) will discuss their perspectives on what being risk-informed “looks like” and what initiatives and program adjustments may help prepare the industry and regulator and advance their respective risk-informed processes.

• Kevin Coyne, Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC tel: 301-415-2478, e-mail: Kevin.Coyne@nrc.gov

   

• Introductory Remarks
  Kevin Coyne, Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC
• Roy Linthicum, PWROG Risk Management Committee Chairman, Pressurized Water Reactor Owners Group
• Bradley Adams, Vice President, Engineering, Southern Nuclear Operating Company
• Julio Lara, Director, Division of Reactor Projects, RIII/NRC
• Risk Informed Oversight
  Rick Deese, Senior Reactor Analyst, Plant Support Branch #2, Division of Reactor Safety, RIV/NRC

• John Hanna, Senior Reactor Analyst, Division of Reactor Projects, RIII/NRC tel: 630-829-9746, e-mail: John.Hanna@nrc.gov