The Conference is the largest public meeting the agency hosts, bringing together over 3,000 participants from more than 40 countries representing interested stakeholders from other government agencies, industry, international organizations, and the general public. The RIC is sponsored by the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, and offers an open environment in which diverse groups of stakeholders may learn, share, and discuss information on significant and timely nuclear regulatory activities and emergent issues.
The RIC offers an illustrious technical program featuring experts from across the agency as well as speakers from industry, academia, and the community. Throughout the conference, attendees were able to participate in dynamic sessions featuring panelists addressing a broad range of topics of interest. To complement the technical program, interactive digital exhibits were available for participants to view at their leisure. Attendees also had the opportunity to participate in tours of the NRC Operations Center to round out their overall conference experience.
Kirsty Gogan spoke at the Technical Session:
Assembling the Pieces: Mobilizing Nuclear Energy with Factory-Fabricated and Transportable Microreactors
SESSION CHAIR:
- Mohamed Shams, Director, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-power Production and Utilization Facilities, NRR/NRC - Opening Remarks
SPEAKERS and presentations:
- William Kennedy, Senior Project Manager, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-power Production and Utilization Facilities, NRR/NRC - Optimizing the Regulatory Landscape for Licensing and Deployment of Factory-Fabricated Micro-Reactors
- John Jackson, National Technical Director for the Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy’s Microreactor Program, Idaho National Laboratory - The Department of Energy Microreactor Program and the MARVEL Project
- Michael Corletti, Senior Director, eVinci Technologies Engineering & Licensing, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC - eVinci Microreactor
- Steven Schilthelm, Director, Regulatory & Mission Assurance, BWXT Advanced Technologies, LLC - Factory to Field: BWXT Vision for Energy Security and Decarbonization through Microreactor Manufacturing & Deployment
- Kirsty Gogan, Founding Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Terra Praxis - Commercially-viable Licensing Pathways for Large-scale Microreactor Deployments
Left to right: Kirsty Gogan; Steven Schilthelm, BWXT Advanced Technologies; Michael Corletti, Westinghouse Electric Company; John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory; William Kennedy, NRR/NRC; Mohamed Shams, NRR/NRC