Special Sessions

SS 4. PSA R&D: What is needed?
Date Oct. 5 (Wed)
Time 10:30-12:30
Venue Vista Hall (B2)
Organizers Nathan SIU (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States)
Jiejuan TONG (Tsinghua University, China)
Enrico ZIO (CentraleSupelec and Politecnico Di Milano, Italy)
Overview
Although most members of the Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) community would probably agree that PSA research and development (R&D) is a necessary activity in a risk-informed decisionmaking environment, perspectives on what R&D is needed can dier. Dierent experts can have dierent ideas as to what issues are important, which ones merit R&D, what R&D should be performed, and how the R&D results should be used in modeling and decision support. This panel session will stimulate exchanges among a panel of PSA researchers, PSA analysts (“practitioners”), and PSA end-users, and with the audience.
Speakers
What R&D is Needed to Restore the Trust Crisis of PSA in Light of Fukushima? Jiejuan TONG (Tsinghua University, China)
Big Knowledge, Information and Data for Next-generation “smart” PSA Enrico ZIO (CentraleSupelec and Politecnico Di Milano, Italy)
Examples of IRSN Activities on R&D to Support PSA Gabriel GEORGESCU (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire, France)
Does PRA Practice Need R&D or Does R&D Need PRA Practice: A View from the Trenches Woody EPSTEIN (Curtiss-Wright, Japan)
In the Eye of the Beholder: A User’s View of PSA R&D Nathan SIU (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States)
R&D Needs for PSA - WGRISK Members Perspectives and Views Marina ROEWEKAMP (Gesellschaft Fur Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH, Germany)

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