From June 18-21, 2013, the NRC conducted a workshop in Warsaw, Poland on how the NRC assesses the environmental impacts of the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. Jack Cushing, Andrew Kugler, and Michael Masnik of NRC’s Office of New Reactors (NRO) and Richard Emch of AdSTM conducted the workshop with support from Danielle Emche of the NRC’s Office of International Programs and Eduardo Sastre of NRO. Thirty-two people participated in the workshop; the participants were mainly from the General Directorate of Environmental Protection, the National Atomic Energy Agency, and the...
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From April 1-5, 2013 Richard Emch and Richard Black of AdSTM conducted training for 25 people from various government agencies and ministries in the government of Ghana including the Radiation Protection Institute and the Nuclear Energy Programme Implementation Organisation (NEPIO). The training presented was the Nuclear Executive Workshop that covers reactor regulation, regulatory activities, licensing process, organizational infrastructure and staff recruitment, qualification and training. The workshop also included a discussion of the events at Fukushima and regulatory aspects of a small...
On March 25th and 26th, 2013, Scott Newberry, Dr. Charles Miller, and David Fischer taught a Fundamentals of Reactor Safety (FORS) course in Pretoria, South Africa for the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) of South Africa. The FORS course provided NNR staff with an overview of the key technical concepts governing nuclear safety. It included the basics of nuclear energy and radiation; fundamentals of reactor design and operation; postulated accidents; the potential extent of public health effects, the design and operational safeguards to prevent radiation releases; and the provisions for...
On March 19th and 20th, 2013, Scott Newberry, Dr. Charles Miller, and David Fischer conducted a Nuclear Executive Workshop (NEW) in Pretoria, South Africa for the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) of South Africa. Attendees included members of the NNR Board of Directors, the Acting Chief Executive Officer, and Senior Executives from the NNR technical and support staffs. The training included summaries of te Three Mile Island and Fukushima accidents in addition to the normal program adgenda (see http://irdp-online.org/training/nuclear_executive_workshop). The workshop was highly interactive and...
From March 12-15, 2013, Sergey Katsenelenbogen of AdSTM attended the 4th Annual Meeting of the Arab Network of Nuclear Regulators on March 12-13 (ANNuR) and the Meeting of National Committees for Nuclear and Radiological Law on March 14-15, both in Hammamet, Tunisia. These meetings were attended by participants from nations that are members of the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA): Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia. In addition the meeting was attended by representatives of EU, IAEA, KINS and SOGIN. AAEA presented information on the training activities in 2012...
A siting workshop developed by AdSTM to illustrate how the NRC reviews a siting Application, either in the context of Early Site Permit (ESP), Construction Permit (CP), or Combined License (COL) was conducted for the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA) on February 17 – 21, 2013 in Tunis, Tunisia. The workshop was attended by 21 people from 10 Arab countries and the AAEA. This workshop follows the review procedure described in the siting related chapters of the standard review plan (SRP) (NUREG-0800). The AdSTM’s instructors David Squarer and Richard Emch entertained numerous pointed questions...
From November 26-28 the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) met with the Office of New Reactors (NRO) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in their headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Le Chi Dung, Deputy Director General, VARANS and Nguyen Quoc Anh, Director, Training Division, VARANS discussed NRC regulatory requirements, review processes and important issues as they pertained to licensing of new reactors in the United States. Dr. Richard Barrett and Scott Newberry of AdSTM attended the meeting and assisted in the discussions with respect to how the NRC licensing...
From November 7-13, 2012 the IRDP provided support to the Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) at a “Workshop on Safety and Regulation on Radioactive Sources and Nuclear Power Plants” held in Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop was conducted for representatives of the Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies of Africa (FNRBA). Dr. Charles Miller provided the participants with lectures on radiation source events and accidents in the United States and the Radiation Source Regulatory Partnership program conducted by AdSTM on behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In addition,...
A new siting workshop developed by AdSTM to illustrate how the NRC reviews a siting Application, either in the context of Early Site Permit (ESP), Construction Permit (CP), or Combined License (COL) was conducted on October 29 - November 2, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand at Thailand’s Office of Atom for Peace (OAP). This workshop follows the review procedure described in the siting related chapters of the standard review plan (SRP) (NUREG-0800). The workshop was attended by a total of 24 people, including 4 people from the State owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). The...
The International Regulatory Development Partnership (IRDP) at the request of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) supported the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Assessment Workshop, 5-9 November 2012, at the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (BNRA), in Sofia, Bulgaria. Mark Reinhart participated with two other IAEA and former IAEA instructors to provide information on the following: Deterministic safety analyses and codes; Probabilistic safety assessment; and Integrated Risk-Informed Decision Making (IRIDM) principles, programs, and applications for operators and...