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Video recording of RIC2026 Technical Session: T5- Right-Sizing Agency Oversight and Inspection
Note: the subtitles are 90% accurate.
This session will provide highlights of revisions and the implementation of changes to agency’s oversight and inspection programs for reactors, fuel facilities, materials licenses, storage, transportation, and low-level waste, as required by the ADVANCE Act section 507 and Executive Order 14300. The presentations will focus on the program changes, implemented for current inspections, and future plans for revising the inspection programs. Additionally, the panel includes industry stakeholders who will provide their perspectives on the program revisions. The presentation will include a discussion of changes to the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) as discussed in SECY-25-0045 and other revisions to the ROP Baseline Inspection Program. If approved, these changes to the ROP Baseline Inspection Program will be the most significant revision in the 25-year history of the ROP.
SESSION CHAIR(S):
Philip McKenna, Acting Director, Division of Reactor Oversight, NRR/NRC and Gerond George, Chief, Inspection and Oversight Branch, Division of Fuel Management, NMSS/NRC
Opening Remarks
SPEAKER(S):
Philip McKenna, Acting Director, Division of Reactor Oversight, NRR/NRC and Gerond George, Chief, Inspection and Oversight Branch, Division of Fuel Management, NMSS/NRC
NMSS Oversight and Inspection
Tim Riti, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Nuclear Energy Institute
Michael Callahan, Principal, Governmental Strategies Incorporated, Decommissioning Plant Coalition
Recommendations Through the Years; Progress at Last
SESSION COORDINATORS(S):
Eric Brothman, Reactor Operations Engineer, Reactor Assessment, NRC e-mail: Eric.Brothman@nrc.gov
Christian Murphy, Trans and Storage Safety Inspector, NMSS/NRC tel: (301) 415-5056, e-mail: Christian.Murphy@nrc.gov
Video recording of RIC2026 Technical Session: T5- Right-Sizing Agency Oversight and Inspection
Note: the subtitles are 90% accurate.
This session will provide highlights of revisions and the implementation of changes to agency’s oversight and inspection programs for reactors, fuel facilities, materials licenses, storage, transportation, and low-level waste, as required by the ADVANCE Act section 507 and Executive Order 14300. The presentations will focus on the program changes, implemented for current inspections, and future plans for revising the inspection programs. Additionally, the panel includes industry stakeholders who will provide their perspectives on the program revisions. The presentation will include a discussion of changes to the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) as discussed in SECY-25-0045 and other revisions to the ROP Baseline Inspection Program. If approved, these changes to the ROP Baseline Inspection Program will be the most significant revision in the 25-year history of the ROP.
SESSION CHAIR(S):
Philip McKenna, Acting Director, Division of Reactor Oversight, NRR/NRC and Gerond George, Chief, Inspection and Oversight Branch, Division of Fuel Management, NMSS/NRC
Opening Remarks
SPEAKER(S):
Philip McKenna, Acting Director, Division of Reactor Oversight, NRR/NRC and Gerond George, Chief, Inspection and Oversight Branch, Division of Fuel Management, NMSS/NRC
NMSS Oversight and Inspection
Tim Riti, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Nuclear Energy Institute
Michael Callahan, Principal, Governmental Strategies Incorporated, Decommissioning Plant Coalition
Recommendations Through the Years; Progress at Last
SESSION COORDINATORS(S):
Eric Brothman, Reactor Operations Engineer, Reactor Assessment, NRC e-mail: Eric.Brothman@nrc.gov
Christian Murphy, Trans and Storage Safety Inspector, NMSS/NRC tel: (301) 415-5056, e-mail: Christian.Murphy@nrc.gov
