Dallas Petry specializes in business process analysis & design and is always looking to reduce latency and cost in complex business processes. The challenge of nuclear regulatory compliance stresses the need to index the records of nuclear applicants and operators according to NRC regulations. Regulatory indexing facilitates efficient retrieval of information for NRC review and inspection activities, thereby reducing time and cost. This goal can be accomplished by both operators and applicants through tailoring their internal business systems (CAD, Engineering, Construction Management, Procurement, Materials Handling, Staff & Training, Operations, Maintenance, etc.) to index records/documents and report on them according to the NRC’s needs for regulatory evidence. It is proposed that NRC and industry work together to further formalize the NRC regulations into a project-based knowledge management framework. A published framework can be used to: – provide the comprehensive regulatory index structure to the internal, business systems of operators and applicants, – provide the definitive framework of tasks that an applicant must undertake to achieve milestones such as reactor design certification. – contain the knowledge library of technical documents and interpretations to every regulatory component. Having such a structure allows industry to fully understand the relation between regulations and the reactor design and the maintenance and operations processes, as well as NRC’s inspection procedures. This allows better delegation of compliance activities to the industry’s engineers, scientists, operations managers and maintenance managers whose responsibility it is to produce the documentary evidence required by NRC. The framework could also be used by NRC to estimate what work effort and activities are required for specific paths of reactor applications (eg. design certification versus site license). In conjunction with good records management practices on behalf of applicants, work estimates could be used by NRC to make rough estimates of costs for reactor applications. Mr. Petry’s talk was presented at TEAC7: Thorium Energy Alliance Conference #7 (June 2015), in Palo Alto, California.
Additional Resources for 2015 TEAC 7:
-
Tyson Smith, Winston & Strawn LLP – TEAC 2015 Presentation
Document -
Ganapati Myneni – Virginia ADS (Accelerator Driven Systems) R&D Center TEAC 7
Category: Reactor DesignsVideo -
TEAC7 Regulatory Dallas Petry June 03, 2015
Category: Government PolicyDocument -
TEAC7 Kutsch Slides
Category: ThoriumDocument -
Myneni Accelerator Driven MSR TEAC7
Category: Reactor DesignsDocument -
Dr. Alex Cannara – Acidification, Climate & Energy TEAC 7
Video -
Carolyn Heising – Ames Laboratroy & India TEAC 7
Category: Critical Materials, ScienceVideo -
Dr. Per Peterson – ORNL MSRE PDFs TEAC 7
Video -
eGeneration Larson TEAC7
Category: Environment, Government PolicyTags: 2015 TEAC 7, TEACDocument -
Calvin College Cost Assessment TEAC7
Category: Reactor Designs, TechnologyDocument -
Lars Jorgensen – ThorCon: A Thorium Molten Salt Reactor System that can be built now TEAC 7
Category: Reactor DesignsVideo -
Overview of the Thorium Fuel Cycle M. Ragheb TEAC7
Document -
Richard Steeves, MD, PhD – Radiation and Cancer TEAC 7
Category: Government Policy, ScienceVideo -
Radn & Cancer Steeves TEAC7
Category: ScienceDocument -
Dan Gluesenkamp – What do we have to lose? TEAC 7
Video -
Boyd Th Catalysts TEAC7
Category: Critical MaterialsDocument -
Thomas Dolan – Book on Molten Salt Reactors TEAC 7
Video -
PB-FHR, a Molten Salt Cooled Pebble Bed Reactor at U.C. Berkeley TEAC 7
Category: Reactor DesignsVideo -
California Plant Society Glueskamp TEAC7
Category: EnvironmentDocument -
Robert Stone – Pandora’s Promise TEAC 7
Category: Environment, HistoricalVideo -
Dr. Ripudaman Malhotra – Cubic Mile of Oil TEAC 7
Category: Environment, Government PolicyVideo -
Book on Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) TEAC7
Category: Reactor Designs, ScienceDocument -
Ganapati Myneni – Virginia Accelerator Driven Systems TEAC 7
Video -
Alex Trembath – Ecomodernism & The Breakthough Institute TEAC 7
Category: Environment, Government PolicyVideo -
Kennedy TEAC7
Category: Critical Materials, Government PolicyDocument -
John Kutsch – Welcome to TEAC 7
Video -
Cubic Mile of Oil TEAC7
Category: EnvironmentDocument -
Bogdan Maglich – Thorium Fireball: Direct Production of U233 in Th232 Beams TEAC 7
Video -
Tyson Smith – Thorium Regulation from Rare Earths to Reactors TEAC 7
Category: Government Policy, ThoriumVideo -
Jim Kennedy – Rare Earth Elements & Thorium Legislative Efforts TEAC 7
Category: Government Policy, ThoriumVideo -
Calvin College Student Study TEAC 7
Video -
Lindsay Dempsey – MSR Power Conversion Options TEAC 7
Tags: 2015 TEAC 7, Advanced Reactor, Clean Energy, Computer Modeling, Load Following, Modular ReactorVideo -
Melton Chew – Thorium Health Physics TEAC 7
Video -
Llewellyn King – Thorium Insight TEAC 7
Category: Government PolicyVideo -
Dr. David LeBlanc – Integral Molten Salt Reactor TEAC 7
Category: Reactor Designs, TechnologyVideo