Conference Program at The Haymarket Hotel
Sunday - 2019.12.01

17:00-19:00 Welcome Reception (register and enjoy light snacks and drinks)


Monday - 2019.12.02

08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Opening & Chair: Johan Sörman
Plenary Speakers: Ola Bäckström, Title: PSA Applications Status and Future Development
10:00-10:30 Mid-morning Break
10:30-12:30 Session 1A Nuclear Power Plant PSA Applications I Chair: Xuhong He
  • present-yes Implementation of Risk Monitor at a U.S. Nuclear Power Plant - Joshua S. Beckton, Westinghouse Electric Company, USA.
  • present-yes Risk assessment of outage plans at Ringhals NPP using RiskWatcher, - Anna Bjereld,Ringhals NPP, Vattenfall, Sweden.
  • present-yes Application of PSA inQinshan Nuclear Power, - Liu Donglin, China National Nuclear Power Co Ltd, China.
  • present-yes Tech Spec Optimisation at Torness Nuclear Plant (Abstract only), – Garth Rowlands, CRA Risk Analysis, UK.
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (on your own)
14:00-15:30 Session 1B Regulatory Perspectives Chair: Per Hellström
  • present-yes Operational use of PSA – An Authority Perspective, - Per Hellström, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Sweden.
  • present-yes The Risk Handbook – A Web-Based Application to Support Site Inspections of Nuclear Power Plants in Canada, – Tiffany Dunbar, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canada.
  • present-yes Probabilistic Risk Assessment Developments for the Licensing Implementation of Risk-Informed Programs for Light Water Reactors, – Jonathan Evans, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA.
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break
16:00-17:00 Session 1C Model and Data Chair: Ola Bäckström
  • present-yes Estimation of specific Common Cause Factors for Digital I&C Modules in the PSA, – Mariana Jockenhövel-Barttfeld, Framatome, Germany.
  • present-yes Probability distributions for multiple fire-induced cable faults causing spurious component operations, – Aaron Moreno, Westinghouse Electric Company, USA.
Tuesday - 2019.12.03

8:30-09:00 Morning coffee
09:00-10:00 Plenary Speaker: Todd Paulos, Space Risk Analysis Applications
10:00-10:30 Mid-morning Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2A PSA Applications in Oil & Gas and Space industry Chair: Todd Paulos
  • present-yes Case Study in Transferring Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Technology and Developing PRA Models for a Natural Gas Company, – Joshua S. Beckton, Westinghouse Electric Company, USA.
  • present-yes Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) for Natural Gas Assets, – Joshua S. Beckton, Westinghouse Electric Company, USA.
  • present-yes Bayesian Approach for Estimating Spacecraft Microbial Bioburden and Managing the Risk of Biological Contamination, – Andrei Gribok, Idaho National Laboratory, USA.
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break (on your own)
13:30-15:00 Session 2B Nuclear Power Plant PSA Applications II Chair: Heiko Kollasko
  • present-yes Challenges in Risk Informed Decision Making – Some Insights from the Nuclear Industry in Sweden, - Erik Sparre, Risk Pilot, Sweden.
  • present-yes Towards a risk informed hierarchy of hydrogen rooms in nuclear power plants, - Julien Beaucourt, Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, France.
  • present-yes Probabilistic safety analysis for the post-operational phase, - Heiko Kollasko, Framatome, Germany.
15:00-15:30 Afternoon Break
15:30-16:30 Session 2C Panel discussions. Moderator Ola Bäckström.
Jonathan Evans United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission USA
Kentaro Yabuki Nuclear Risk Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Japan
Jeijuan Tong Tsinghua University China
Per Hellström Swedish Radiation Safety Authority Sweden
Joel Robinson Office for Nuclear Regulation UK
Tiffany Dunbar Nuclear Safety Commission Canada