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Workshop Description

Originating in 1914, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code has been serving and protecting the public for 96 years. ASME codes and standards are supporting nuclear manufacturing and construction of new plants in China and around the globe. They can be applied to many of the current plant designs being marketed and constructed in China, including the AP1000 and EPR. ASME's codes & standards for component design and fabrication, inservice inspection and testing, as well as our quality assurance, certification and inspection programs are widely recognized and used by manufacturers in China and around the globe.

This workshop will provide an overview of both the Chinese and global nuclear industry and how codes and standards are used in the design, construction and operation of nuclear power plants.


Program

9:00 - 9:10 Greeting and explanation of workshop (Speaker: John Bendo - Nuclear Energy Business Manager, ASME)

9:10-9:20 Welcome Remarks (Speaker: Amos Holt - President, ASME)

9:20-9:50 Overview of the Global Nuclear Industry (Speaker: Tom Bergman - Director, Division of Engineering, Office of New Reactors, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

9:50-10:20 Overview of the U.S. Regulatory System (Speaker: Tom Bergman - Director, Division of Engineering, Office of New Reactors, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

10:20-10:40 Global Use of Standards (Speaker: Christian Sanna - Project Engineering Manager, ASME)

10:40-11:00 Break

11:00-11:30 Overview of the Chinese Nuclear Industry (Professor Yu Zusheng, Member of the Experts Committee, State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation)

11:30 - 12:15 Overview of ASME Codes and Standards (Speaker: John Bendo - Nuclear Energy Business Manager, ASME)

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:15 ASME Section III - Codes for Nuclear Facility Component Design and Construction (Speaker: Ralph Hill - Member, ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards and Consulting Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Company)

2:15-3:00 ASME Nuclear Conformity Assessment and Quality Assurance Program (Speaker: Christian Sanna - Project Engineering Manager, ASME)

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:15 ASME Section XI - Codes for Inservice Inspection and Testing of Nuclear Power Plant Components (Speaker: Ryan Crane - Project Engineering Manager, ASME)

4:15-4:40 The Use of Risk-informed Probabilistic Methods in Codes and Standards (Speaker: Ralph Hill - Member, ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards and Consulting Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Company)

4:40-4:45 Wrap Up (John Bendo - Nuclear Energy Business Manager, ASME)

Lecturers

Holt, Amos E.
Amos E. Holt, Ph.D., is the 128th president of the Society, serving the 2009-2010 term. A member of ASME since 1982, he has served in many leadership positions during his 26-year affiliation with the Society, most recently as secretary and treasurer. Other offices have included chair of the Committee on Finance and Investment, chair of the Continuing Education Institute, and vice president of the Pressure Technology Group.
Holt is a technical expert in the areas of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and advanced engineering materials. He is the vice president of Environmental, Safety, and Quality Systems for Southwest Research Institute? in San Antonio, Texas, where he is responsible for implementing necessary environmental, safety, and quality systems to meet client requirements and all applicable governmental standards, regulations, and codes.
Prior to joining Southwest Research Institute in 1985, Holt worked as section manager for Babcock & Wilcox, where he was involved in NDE inspections and diagnostic systems. He developed several new products supporting NDE, including an acoustic monitor and modular ultrasonic inspection system for boilers. He also directed electronic and mechanical design operations as well as software development programs.
Holt worked at Babcock & Wilcox for 13 years, during which time he developed his expert skills in NDE, particularly in the areas of ultrasonic imaging and acoustic holography. He has published more than 40 technical papers and articles on acoustic holography and other subjects pertaining to NDE. He holds five patents.
Holt received a B.S. in physics from Arlington State College and master's degree in physics from the University of Texas, Arlington. He continued his education and training at Nova Southeastern University, earning his Ph.D. in computer and information sciences in 1994. He served in the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army from 1963 to 1965.
Holt was named a fellow of ASME in 1993 and honorary member in 2002. He also was a lecturer in the ASME Distinguished Lecturers' Program and in 2000, became a recipient of the Society's Dedicated Service Award.
In addition to ASME, Holt is a member of the American Society for Quality, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Sigma Pi Sigma.

Christian A. Sanna
Project Engineering Administrator, Nuclear Codes & Standards
Chris Sanna joined the ASME Codes and Standards (C&S) staff in 1989 and is a Project Engineering Administrator in Nuclear Codes & Standards. He has served as member and Staff Secretary for the ASME BPV Subcommittee on Nuclear Power (SC III) for 17 years. Chris is also currently a member on the Subgroup on Strategy and Management (SC III), the Joint ACI-ASME Committee on Concrete Components for Nuclear Service, and the Subgroup on Graphite Core Components (for HTGR / VHTR's). He has also previously served as member and Staff Secretary on the ASME Committees on Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA) and Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment (CONAGT). Chris received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. from New York University.

John Bendo
Nuclear Energy Business Manager
ASME
John Bendo is the Nuclear Energy Business Manager at ASME. He is responsible for management of products and services addressing the needs of industry, government, and academia involved in nuclear power technology.

John is a nuclear engineer and his professional experience includes 25 years of engineering design, analysis, operations, maintenance and management activities. He has worked on multiple engineering projects in the commercial power industry, as well as in cutting edge environmental technology. John also worked in the U.S. Navy nuclear power program and has extensive operations and plant design experience on naval nuclear propulsion plants.

Ralph Hill
Ralph Hill has almost forty years of technical and management experience including more than eighteen years in planning, engineering design, construction, and modification for the nuclear power industry. Currently, he is a Westinghouse Electric Company Consulting Engineer for the Plant Engineering portfolio. In the prior fourteen years, he provided strategic planning, system engineering, risk management, process evaluation, and project management consulting services to U.S. Department of Energy in spent nuclear fuel, radioactive waste management, and nuclear materials disposition-related projects. He has extensive experience in project management and systems analysis for high level and low level waste and nuclear materials disposition systems. Mr. Hill is a member of ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards and serves as member and or chair on other nuclear code committees where he is actively involved in bringing risk-informed probabilistic design methods into the ASME Code as well as initiatives to support both advanced and next-generation nuclear reactors.

Ryan Crane, P.E.
Ryan Crane P.E.is employed by ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) with over 11 years of experience in the areas of codes, standards, and conformity assessment and certification programs. Mr. Crane has managed codes and standards activities in a variety of fields, including nuclear power, energy efficiency, verification and validation in computational modeling, gas turbines, and flow measurement. Mr. Crane is currently the Secretary to the Standards Committee responsible for ASME Section XI, Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components and also serves as the European liaison for ASME's Nuclear Codes and Standards Department. He is active with the International Organization on Standardization (ISO) on several U.S. technical advisory groups and has served as the Secretariat to the technical committee on gas turbines. Ryan Crane is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York.

Thomas Bergman
Mr. Bergman is the Director of the Division of Engineering in the Office of New Reactors at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has been in this position since February 2009. Previously he was the Deputy Director for Licensing Operations in the Division of New Reactor Licensing. Mr. Bergman has been with the Office of New Reactors since its formation in 2006. He has been with the NRC since 1990, working in both the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and the Office of the Executive Director for Operations. Mr. Bergman has 25 years of experience in the nuclear field, working previously for ARINC Research Corporation and as a US Navy Officer at the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Directorate. He has a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.