TH18 In RISK We TRUST-Enhancing Acceptance on Risk-Informed Decision-Making

The NRC's Be riskSMART framework is designed to support appropriate and consistent integration of risk information into our safety and security regulatory decisions. Effective implementation of risk informed decision making is vital to the agency's success in regulating our changing landscape, with new and different regulatory activities such as reviews of new and advanced reactors, accident tolerant fuel, and new safety and security technologies. It is important to ensure the NRC staff, industry, and the public have confidence and trust in our decision making processes. Risk communications and understanding risk are challenging and may contribute to a reluctance to rely on risk-informed decision-making in these different areas. This panel will explore ways to address the challenges of enhancing trust in risk informed decision making.

In RISK We Trust Video


SESSION CHAIR(S):
 

• Opening Remarks
  Michele Sampson, Director, Division of Engineering, RES/NRC

SPEAKER(S):
 

• In Risk We Trust - Enhancing Acceptance of Risk-Informed Decision-Making
  Michael Franovich, Director, Division of Risk Assessment, NRR/NRC
• The Evolving Role of Risk-informed Decisionmaking in Nuclear Safety
  Doug True, Chief Nuclear Officer and Senior Vice President, Nuclear Energy Institute
• In Risk We Trust - Aviation Perspective
  Cody Schnaufer, Division Manager, Safety Risk Management Division, AFB-400, Federal Aviation Administration
• ONR's Cultural Journey Towards Better Risk Informed Targeting and Decision Making
  Mark Foy, Chief Executive and Chief Nuclear Inspector, Office for Nuclear Regulation, United Kingdom

SESSION COORDINATOR(S):
 

• Qin Pan, Reliability and Risk Analyst, PRA Oversight Branch, Division of Risk Assessment, NRR/NRC e-mail: Qin.Pan@nrc.gov
• Daniel Silverstein, Reliability and Risk Analyst, PRA Licensing Branch C, Division of Risk Assessment, NRR/NRC e-mail: Daniel.Silverstein@nrc.gov
• Daniel Ju, Reliability & Risk Analyst, PRA Licensing Branch B, Division of Risk Assessment, NRR/NRC e-mail: Daniel.Ju@nrc.gov