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SUMMARY:Expert Insight Series - Leading the way to a safer nuclear future
 
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DESCRIPTION:Exploring nuclear safety\, lessons from past incidents\, crit
 ical thinking\, and new reactor designs to improve future industry confi
 dence.\n\nGetting the government and public on-side to support a healthy
  nuclear future depends upon a demonstration of technical excellence com
 bined with convincing explanations that historical mishaps\, which remai
 n strong in the public memory\, have taught us many things which will gi
 ve great confidence that similar events shall not happen in the future. 
 A significant input to this learning of lessons to the processes of desi
 gn\, construction\, operation and eventual dismantling of nuclear instal
 lations is a demonstration that every possible eventuality has been iden
 tified\, considered\, and mitigated against.\n\nA review of a number of 
 historical nuclear events reveals patterns in errors and uncertainties w
 hich 'critical thinking' can ensure are not repeated. Thinking 'outside 
 the box' is seen to be as important as following rigorously tested proce
 dures\, and that suitably experienced and qualified individuals are enga
 ged and allowed to have an independent voice\, such that 'groupthink' is
  not allowed to lead to a less than ideal decision.\n\nThe talk will inc
 lude some brief exercises designed to illustrate how easy it is to come 
 to a wrong decision\, and will conclude with a look at examples of new r
 eactor designs and waste-management ideas which have already demonstrate
 d that designers and planners are still needing to learn these lessons.\
 n\nThere will be an talk followed by a Q&A\, hosted by Dalton Champion F
 rancesca Brooks-Ward.\n\nAbout the speaker - Professor Anthony Wickham o
 btained a first class degree in Chemistry from Imperial (London) in 1968
  and immediately joined the nuclear power industry (CEGB Berkeley Nuclea
 r Laboratories) where he spent the first three years researching the rad
 iation chemistry of reactor coolants for his PhD. He remained at Berkele
 y for 27 years\, finally heading up the graphite monitoring work in supp
 ort of the Magnox and AGR reactors. He has continued working independent
 ly as a nuclear graphite specialist\, supporting reactor operation\, dec
 ommissioning\, and nuclear safeguards internationally with extensive wor
 k of the International Atomic Energy Agency\, US national labs\, and num
 erous organisations in Japan\, Germany\, South Africa and France\, as we
 ll as long-term support to EdF Nuclear Operations in the UK (as a member
  of the Independent Graphite Validation Group). He has recently complete
 d work for the European Commission and the Lithuanian Energy Ministry in
  regard to dismantling of the Ignalina RBMK reactors\, and the US Nuclea
 r Regulatory Commission in support of future SMRs. Currently\, in common
  with the UoM Nuclear Graphite Research Group\, he is supporting Nuclear
  Restoration Services in their ambition to accelerate the dismantling of
  Magnox reactors for site recovery with innovative options for disposing
  of irradiated graphite. He is the only person on the planet to have att
 ended all 25 International Nuclear Graphite Specialist Meetings\, which 
 he helped to found via the IAEA.
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LOCATION:G.007\, Oddfellows Hall\, Manchester
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