CFP - Meeting on Risk Management and Performance Assessment

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                First Announcement and Call For Papers
        Risk-Based Performance Assessment and Decision Making 

Sponsored by the 
Eastern Washington Section,
Environmental Sciences Division, and the
Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division
of the American Nuclear Society

April 5-8, 1998 - Pasco, Washington


The 1998 Topical Meeting on Risk-based Performance Assessment and 
Decision Making will address several important issues related to the use 
of performance and risk assessments in making decisions regarding 
nuclear facility safety, waste management and environmental restoration.  
A focus of the Symposium will be on the methods used for conducting 
performance and risk assessments and how those assessments can be used 
to make better decisions. Of particular interest is the interaction of 
the risk practitioners and the decision makers who utilize the results 
of performance and risk assessments.  Environmental, safety and health 
risks as well as programmatic risks will be addressed.  The Symposium 
will feature a plenary session, invited speakers, case studies, and 
contributed papers of interest to scientists, engineers, decision 
makers, regulators, and the general public. 

Contributed papers should focus on the successful application of risk-
based decision making to meet the needs of the U.S. Department of 
Energy, in their waste management and environmental clean-up mission. 
Papers addressing performance and risk assessment methodologies 
currently in use or development are being requested.  Results of recent 
applications of performance/risk assessment methods and the decision 
making processes that have been instituted to accept and use 
performance/risk assessment information are particularly encouraged.  
Papers discussing successful applications of risk-based performance 
assessments both within the nuclear industry as well as other non-
nuclear industries are welcome. 

Authors are requested to submit brief (not more than 1500 words) 
summaries on one of the topics described below (other, related, topics 
may be considered as well): 

 o     Risk-Based Decision making in Complex systems
 o     Addressing Uncertainty in Risk-based Assessments
 o     Life-cycle risk and cost analyses
 o     Risk-based assessments in a regulatory context
 o     Decision infrastructure necessary for effective risk-based 
        assessments
 o     Examples of risk reduction achieved through risk-based decision
        making
 o     Public involvement with risk-based assessments
 o     Probabilistic risk assessment techniques and applications
 o     Assessment and management of programmatic risks
 o     Managing risks under contract reform and privatization

Authors of papers accepted for presentation will be requested to submit 
a paper for publication in the conference proceedings.  All papers will 
be peer reviewed prior to final acceptance for publication. Conference 
proceedings will be distributed as a hard bound volume. 

Questions on the technical program should be directed to:  Mr.  William 
T. Farris, Technical Program Chair, 509/375-2747 

Summaries must be in English and on one side of the page only.  
Electronic formats (disk or email) are encouraged.  The deadline for 
Submission is September  1, 1997.  Please send your summary to: 

              Risk-based Performance Assessment Symposium
                                  ANS
                              PO BOX 941
                           RICHLAND WA 99352


General questions on the conference or paper submission may be directed 
to W.T. Farris at the above address, by phone at 509/375-2747, by fax at 
509/375-3618, or by E-mail at ans.risk@pnl.gov