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M230330: Slides/Supporting Presentation Material - Z. Mohaghegh - Briefing on Nuclear Regulatory Research Program
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Building Capabilities at Universities through University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP)

Mission-related Research and Development Grants Zahra Mohaghegh Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE)

Director, Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Research Laboratory Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) zahra13@Illinois.edu March 30, 2023

Why UNLP Grants Are Important Impactful Research Attracts Purpose-Focused Talent

  • UNLP supports cutting-edge university research which attracts and cultivates purpose-driven students who are needed to:

Ø address emergent safety concerns in existing plants;

Ø expedite the development and deployment of next generation reactors.

  • Fostering university-led nuclear innovation and investing in the future workforce help improve the efficiency of regulation while maintaining the successful safety record of the nuclear industry.

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 2

How to Maximize UNLP Impacts A. What university practices could maximize UNLP impacts?

1. Integrate regulatory methods & needs into educational programs.
2. Establish strong connections between scientific research and regulatory challenges, leveraging scholarly objectivity.
3. Create strategic research plans that have visionary goals.

B. What could NRC do to maximize UNLP impacts?

1. Encourage university best practices (e.g., practices A.1. to A.3) through dissemination and grant review guidelines.
2. Create an additional UNLP funding category to enable NRC-endorsed groundbreaking research initiatives & centers at universities to target high-risk/high-reward research.

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 3

A.1. What university practices could maximize UNLP impacts?

Integrate Regulatory Methods and Needs into Educational Programs

  • This approach increases the chances that scholarly research can have a real-world impact in light of the regulatory landscape.

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 4

A.2. What university practices could maximize UNLP impacts?

Connect Scientific Research to Regulatory Challenges, Leveraging Scholarly Objectivity Supported or Acknowledged by:

  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company
  • U.S. National Science Foundation
  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  • U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Kajima Corporation (Japan)

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 5

A.3. What university practices could maximize UNLP impacts?

Create Strategic Research Plans Having Visionary Goals NRC - UNLP Project, 2022-2025

  • M&S (digital twins, human-machine interface)

ü Create strategic plans to develop complementary DOE - NEUP Project, 2021-2024 research topics and

  • M&S, Validation & uncertainty analysis (AI-based automation) progressively advance toward visionary goals.

Pending Research Proposals:

ARs: Advanced Reactors IAEA Project, 2018-2021

  • DOE - IRP: M&S, Digital twins for capacity IRP: Integrated Research Program
  • M&S (physics + maintenance factor management of ARs.

M&S: Modeling and Simulation for piping reliability analysis)

  • DOE - NEUP: M&S for ARs, Validation.

NEUP: Nuclear Energy University Program

  • DOE - NEUP: M&S for risk-informed in-NPP: Nuclear Power Plant NRC - UNLP Project, 2021-2024 service inspection of ARs.

RIPB: Risk-informed Performance-based

  • Validation & uncertainty analysis for
  • DOE - Industry: M&S for common cause IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency M&S (physics + maintenance) failure analysis of existing plants and ARs.

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 6

How to Maximize UNLP Impacts A. What university practices could maximize UNLP impacts?

1. Integrate regulatory methods & needs into educational programs.
2. Establish strong connections between scientific research and regulatory challenges, leveraging scholarly objectivity.
3. Create strategic research plans that have visionary goals.

B. What could NRC do to maximize UNLP impacts?

1. Encourage university best practices (e.g., practices A.1. to A.3) through dissemination and grant review guidelines.
2. Create an additional UNLP funding category to enable NRC-endorsed groundbreaking research initiatives & centers at universities to target high-risk/high-reward research.

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 7

B.2. What could NRC do to maximize UNLP impacts?

Example of Groundbreaking Research Initiative NRC-endorsed Research Initiative for Technology-Inclusive Risk-Informed NRC - UNLP Project, 2022-2025

  • M&S (digital twins, human-machine Performance-Based (RIPB) Analysis &

interface) Regulation of Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plants DOE - NEUP Project, 2021-2024

  • M&S, Validation & uncertainty Develop a transformational automated analysis (AI-based automation) platform for a regulatory-accredited approach to enable expedited and cost-effective implementation of an RIPB regulatory framework.

Integrate RIPB analysis with modeling and simulation of underlying physics-human-organization phenomena, digital Pending Research Proposals:

IAEA Project, 2018-2021

  • DOE - IRP: M&S, Digital twins for capacity twins, AI/ML, and validation.
  • M&S (physics + maintenance for factor management of ARs.

piping reliability analysis)

Expand next-generation workforce.

  • DOE - NEUP: M&S for ARs, Validation.
  • DOE - NEUP: M&S for risk-informed in-NRC - UNLP Project, 2021-2024 service inspection of ARs.
  • Validation & uncertainty analysis for
  • DOE - Industry: M&S for common cause M&S (physics + maintenance) failure analysis of existing and ARs.

AI/ML: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 8

Takeaways on Value of UNLP & Maximizing Its Impacts The Value of UNLP Maximizing UNLP Impacts A. Examples of university best practices that can UNLP provides the ideal opportunity for maximize UNLP impacts:

attracting and cultivating exceptional

1. Integrating regulatory methods & needs into talent through impactful research that is educational programs.

focused on: 2. Establishing strong connection between scientific

  • Creating science-based technical solutions research and regulatory challenges, leveraging to enhance the safety and operational scholarly objectivity.
3. Creating strategic research plans that have flexibility of existing plants; visionary goals.
  • Developing science-based methodologies B. NRC should encourage university best practices for efficient and effective regulation of through dissemination and grant review advanced reactors. guidelines.

C. NRC should create an additional UNLP funding category to enable NRC-endorsed groundbreaking research initiatives and centers at universities to target high-risk/high-reward research.

NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GRAINGER ENGINEERING 9

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