ML12090A695
| ML12090A695 | |
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| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 03/30/2012 |
| From: | Ghosh S T Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| RAS 22152, 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, ASLBP 07-858-03-LR-BD01 | |
| Download: ML12090A695 (4) | |
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop: C-3A07M Washington, DC 20555 301-251-7984 Tina.Ghosh@nrc.gov S. Tina Ghosh Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, September 2004 GPA 4.9/5.0 Fission engineering major, specialized in probabilistic risk assessment. Thesis developed a sensitivity analysis method to generate risk information that would be useful for making decisions about high-level nuclear waste repositories, and demonstrated the application of the method using the proposed Yucca Mountain repository as an example. Supervisor: George Apostolakis. Reader: Richard Lester.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M., Technology & Policy, June 2000 Thesis developed and implemented a formal method for the elicitation of stakeholders' objectives and priorities for a risk-informed, performance-based regulatory system for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Princeton University, B.S.E., Civil Engineering and Operations Research, June 1995 Concentration in Environmental Engineering, with Certificate in Environmental Studies. Senior thesis considered disposition options for excess weapons-grade plutonium and compared different waste forms for the disposal option.
Work Experience U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission , Rockville, MD Senior Program Manager, Division of Systems Analysis, Office Nuclear Regulatory Research. October 2010-present NRC lead for the uncertainty analysis of the state-of-the-art reactor consequences analysis.
Reactor Engineer, Division of Risk Assessment, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. May 2008-September 2010. Reviewed severe accident mitigation alternative (SAMA) analyses for nuclear power plant license renewal applications. Primary responsibility was to evaluate risk-informed applications that involve level 2 probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), level 3 PRA, and/or large early release frequency evaluations. Appointed member of the agency's safety culture technical review group for operating experience.
Systems Performance Analyst, Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. September 2004 - May 2008 Primary responsibility was to evaluate performance assessments and risk analyses in a license application for the potential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Nuclear Safety Professional Development Program graduate (2006) in the Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards (NMSS), Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety. Completed a 4-month rotation to the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research on human S. Tina Ghosh 2 reliability analysis, and a 6-month rotation to Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation on human factors evaluations. Appointed member of the agency's safety culture working group; NMSS technical representative.
Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, IL Princeton Project'55 Fellow for Civic Leadership, September 1995 - June 1996 Project on promoting the consideration of air quality issues in transportation planning for the Chicago metropolitan area, to improve public health. Mapped wind and ground-level ozone transport patterns around Chicago.
Published Papers
Ghosh, S. Tina and George E. Apostolakis, "Extracting Risk Insights from Performance Assessments for HLW Repositories,"
Nuclear Technology, Vol. 153, Jan. 2006, pp. 70-88.
Ghosh, S. Tina and George E. Apostolakis, "Organizational Contributions to Nuclear Power Plant Safety," Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol. 37, June 2005, pp. 207-220.
Ghosh, Tina, Robert Palla, and Donald Helton, "Perspectives on Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives for U.S. Plant License Renewal," OECD Workshop on Severe Accident Management, October 2009.
Conference Presentations "Using SPARC to Extract Risk Insights from Performance Assessments for HLW Repositories" 8 th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., May 2006 "Learning about NPP Organizations through Root-Cause Analysis Using A-CATILaC" 4 th International ANS Topical Meeting on NPIC & Human-Machine Interface Technologies Columbus, OH, September 2004 "Learning about Nuclear Power Plant Organizations through Incident Investigation" Hungarian-US Workshop on Human Factors Budapest, Hungary, June 2003 "Assessing Structural Model Uncertainty in Performance Assessments" 6 th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2002
"Adding Rigor to Your Public Involvement Methods" Seminar on the Analytic Hierarchy Process for structured elicitation of stakeholder values International Association for Public Participation Conference Banff, Alberta, November 1999 Research Experience US Nuclear Regulatory Commission , Rockville, MD Graduate Student Intern, Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, Summer 2003 Project on risk-informed decision-making for the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository program, in support of doctoral thesis.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Research Assistant, Summer 2002 S. Tina Ghosh 3 Counter-terrorism initiative project for the MIT Engineering Systems Division. Explored the use of traditional risk analysis tools, such as event trees and influence diagrams, to represent the propagation of social and technological effects in large-system failures such as regional power blackouts. Coordinated activities of the faculty subcommittee on gaining insights from past experience. Research Assistant, 1998 High-level nuclear waste (HLW) regulatory frameworks project for Electricité de France. Evaluated the representation of risk and uncertainty in safety assessments developed in different national HLW programs and the potential for regulatory requirements to create unintended incentives for the repository developers to make sub-optimal design and program choices.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , Livermore, CA OCRWM Graduate Fellow, Fall 2000 Project on assessing uncertainty in conceptual models used in the Yucca Mountain Total-System Performance Assessment, in support of doctoral thesis. Consulted experts on the mechanistic modeling of Yucca Mountain sub-systems and components.
Teaching Experience Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Guest Lecturer Spring 2005, Spring 2007, and Spring 2009, Nuclear Waste Management graduate course. Taught module on total-system performance assessment (probabilistic risk assessment for waste repositories). Fall 2007, Integration of Reactor Design, Operations, and Safety graduate course. Lecture on performance assessment for nuclear waste repository systems, and risk analyses for the operational phase of nuclear waste repositories.
Fall 2003, Probability and Applications to Reliability, Quality Control, and Risk Assessment graduate course.
Lectures on performance assessments for the Yucca Mountain Repository, different kinds of uncertainty in risk assessments, and SAPHIRE software for probabilis tic risk assessment. Fall 1998, Nuclear Waste Management graduate course Lectures on scenario analysis and performance assessments for different proposed high-level radioactive waste repositories around the world.
Teaching Facilitator and Mentor January 2006 and January 2007, MIT Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program Led discussion for a small group of students in a week-long professional development course, on topics such as team-work, effective communication to diverse audiences, and systems thinking.
Teaching Assistant Spring 2002, Spring 2003, and Spring 2004, Engineering Risk-Benefit Analysis course, a school-wide graduate elective with 60-80 students. Taught weekly recitations, delivered several guest lectures. Summer 2000 & 2001. Reactor Technology Course for energy utility executives, a course of the National Academy of Nuclear Engineering; one of two Head TAs in summer 2001.
S. Tina Ghosh 4 Awards Outstanding Performance Award, U.S. NRC, 2009. Special Act Award for a significant contribution to the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. NRC, 2007. Outstanding Performance Award, U.S. NRC, 2006. Special Act Award for a significant contribution to the U.S. NRC on the safety culture working group, 2006. Outstanding Performance Award, U.S. NRC, 2005. Special Act Award for a significant contribution to the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, U.S. NRC, 2003. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, MIT Nuclear Engineering Department, 2003. Alpha Nu Sigma, the national nuclear engineering honor society, member since 2000. Kiel Fellowship for the wiser use of science and technology, 1997-1998. Princeton University Kane Scholarship, 1991-1995. Con Edison Scholarship, 1991-1995.