Mr. C.R. (Rick) Grantom is a leading American expert in the application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment. He has over 25 years of nuclear power plant experience, 21 of which are directly related to risk management methods and their application to nuclear power plants. In the past Mr. Grantom has had direct involvement in the development, approval, and implementation of several key risk informed initiatives at the South Texas Project. These risk informed application areas include: Plant Configuration Risk Management, Risk Informed Technical Specifications, Risk Informing station testing, inspection, and maintenance programs, and Exemption from Special Treatment Requirements.

E. Popova, W. Yu, E. Kee, A. Sun, D. Richards, and R. Grantom, Basic factors to forecast maintenance cost and failure processes for nuclear power plants, Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 236, Aug. 2006, pp. 1641-1647.

A. Galenko, E. Popova, E. Kee, and R. Grantom, Optimal preventive maintenance under decision dependent uncertainty, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, 2006.

A. Sun, E. Kee, W. Yu, E. Popova, R. Grantom, and D. Richards, Application of CROW-AMSAA analysis to nuclear power plant equipment performance, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, 2005.

A. Galenko, D. Morton, E. Popova, E. Kee, and R. Grantom, Operational level models and methods for risk informed nuclear asset management, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment, 2005.

W. Yu, E. Popova, E. Kee, A. Sun, and R. Grantom, Basic factors to forecast maintenance cost for nuclear power plants, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, 2005.

R. Grantom, Organization Incorporation of PSA, International Workshop on Use of PSA in Operation of NPPs and in Regulatory Decision Making, 2004.

R. Grantom, PSA Application to Configuration Risk Management Program, International Workshop on Use of PSA in Operation of NPPs and in Regulatory Decision Making, 2004.

R. Grantom, PSA Techniques in Component Risk Significance Categorization for Graded QA and Exemption from Special Treatment Requirements, International Workshop on Use of PSA in Operation of NPPs and in Regulatory Decision Making, 2004.

R. Grantom, Risk-Informed Asset Management (RIAM) for NPPs, International Workshop on Use of PSA in Operation of NPPs and in Regulatory Decision Making, 2004.

R. Grantom, Risk-Informed Technical Specification Application at STP, International Workshop on Use of PSA in Operation of NPPs and in Regulatory Decision Making, 2004.

R. Grantom, Graded quality assurance application at South Texas Project, ANS Executive Conference on How to Leverage your PSA for Excellence in Safety and Economic Performance, San Antonio, CA: 1996.