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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Curtis Smith

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series
Date
Oct 27, 2020   4:00 - 4:50 pm  
Speaker
Curtis Smith, Director, Nuclear Safety & Regulatory Research Division, Idaho National Laboratory
Cost
Free and Open to the Public
E-Mail
nuclear@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-2295
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Risk-Informed Applications and Science – Past, Present, & Future

Abstract: The Idaho National Laboratory is creating the next-generation reliability- and risk-assessment methods and tools that support risk-informed decision-making by combining physics-based models with probabilistic quantification approaches.  Integrating these two worlds of physics and probability using a simulation framework leads us to predictions based upon an approach called “computational risk assessment” which will serve as the technical basis for the future of reliability and risk approaches.  By combining phenomenology directly with stochastic quantification, we are able to perform advanced uncertainty analysis directly on both parameters and models.  While these advanced methods and tools can provide increased realism in our engineering safety and risk approaches, their greater benefit is to provide a risk-informed engineering framework for design and operation.  This talk will briefly review the history of risk assessment and risk-informed applications, describe some of the current research and development found at the Idaho National Laboratory, and discuss potential future applications and approaches for advanced methods and tools

Bio: Curtis Smith, Ph.D., is the Director of the Idaho National Laboratory’s Nuclear Safety & Regulatory Research Division. He is the past Risk Informed Systems Analysis Pathway lead under the DOE Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program and served as the project manager for the NRC's SAPHIRE risk analysis software. His most recent appointment is the lead for the Risk Integration and Uncertainty Working Group of the NASA Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel for the Mars 2020 mission.

Dr. Smith has been in the risk and reliability assessment field for more than 30 years. He has worked at INL as a risk analysis specialist for a diverse set of organizations including the DOE, the NRC, NASA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Federal Aviation Administration. He was the Chair of the ASME Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Executive Committee, is the President of the Board for the International Association of Probabilistic Safety and Management organization, and is a past President of the Idaho State University College of Engineering Advisory Council. Dr. Smith has published over 260 papers, books, and reports on risk and reliability theory and applications. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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