Advancing Risk-Informed Initiatives: Unlocking the Next Opportunities for Improved Safety and Efficiency

The regulatory and operational environment for nuclear plants is evolving to leverage additional risk-informed improvements. This panel will focus on four immediate opportunities that can strengthen safety margins, improve plant efficiency, and reduce unnecessary regulatory burden.

Industry experts will discuss:

• Opportunities to update administrative technical specifications to streamline implementation of risk informed technical specifications and 50.69
• Leveraging the newly approved (Q3 2025) risk-informing passive component categorization process to significantly reduce the resources required to implement 50.69
• Ongoing work to improve the realism in industry failure rate data, and how plants can capitalize on these improvements
• Applying risk insights to Technical Specification 3.0.3 actions to better align shutdown decisions with actual plant safety and risk impact

Attendees will gain practical strategies to position their plants for near-term risk-informed successes and engage proactively in upcoming opportunities.