Professional Activities

Selected Professional Activities

  • Senior Expert, IAEA Multi-Unit Risk Methodology Development (July 2013-Present)
  • Member, External Review Board, Extremely Low Probability of Rupture (xPLR), ORNL/EPRI/NRC (January 2013-December 2017)
  • Member, Committee for a Study of Pipeline Transportation of Diluted Bitumen, National Academy of Sciences (July 2012-July 2013)

Selected Recent Editorial Activities

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Integrated Safety Science (June 2017-Present)
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (January 2010-May 2013)
  • Editorial Board, Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal (January 2010-Present)
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Risk and Reliability (April 2005-Present)
  • Editorial Board, International Journal on Performability Engineering (January 2005-Present)
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS) (December 2004-Present)
  • Member, Editorial Board of the Nuclear Technology Journal (June 2001-May 2019)
  • Guest Editor, Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal (special issue on Intelligent Systems). Also Guest Editor, Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal (special issue on Functional Modeling).

Selected Recent Consulting Activities

  • Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), summarizing best practices in Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics (PFM).
  • International Atomic Energy Agency, development of guidelines for multi-unit probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear plants.
  • Office of Nuclear Safety, DOE, assess conservatisms in traditional accident analysis techniques used in DOE facilities.
  • Wyle Laboratories, various Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) training.
  • Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, NRC, comparing Integrated Safety Assessment (ISA) and PRA methods in nuclear fuel facilities.
  • Gensler Corp., evaluation of nuclear laboratory safety in support of the master plan development for the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, Saudi Arabia.
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratories, support NRC’s efforts in extremely low probability of rupture (xLPR), pressurized thermal shock for reactor vessel flaw characterization including ISI detection and bias uncertainties.
  • NuScale Power Corp., support PRA of the NuScale reactor design.