Denning Appointed to National Research Council Committee
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Nuclear Engineering Professor Richard Denning has been asked to serve on a National Academy of Science Committee that will begin meeting this summer. He and his fellow committee members will undertake a congressionally mandated study entitled Lessons Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants. Among other topics, the study will address the causes of the Fukushima nuclear accident; the safety and security of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste storage; and lessons that can be learned from the accident to improve commercial nuclear plant safety and security systems and operations. The study is being sponsored by the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Denning, is an expert in the fields of risk analysis, nuclear analysis, nuclear safety, and severe accident behavior of nuclear reactors. Throughout his career, Dr. Denning has managed studies of the safety and risk of a variety of nuclear facilities including commercial nuclear power plants and a number of Department of Energy (DOE) non-reactor nuclear facilities.
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