Fernando Ferrante Email & Phone Number

Maryland, United States

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Principal Technical Leader for the Risk & Safety Management (RSM) Program at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) performing research and development work related to the development, maintenance, and application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) at nuclear power plants, with more than 10 years’ experience on risk assessment nuclear applications in government and research institutions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Worked on nuclear safety oversight on the design and infrastructure of the U.S. Department of Energy’s defense nuclear complex to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety. Focused on supporting the development of a risk-informed framework to assess the performance of the U.S. Department of Energy in order to establish appropriate U.S. Defense Nuclear Safety Board oversight; as well as the review of the safety basis for various U.S. Department of Energy nuclear facilities, with a focus on the application of risk-related methodologies and tools.

Rockville, Md

Worked as a Reliability and Risk Analyst with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) in the areas of event and condition assessment risk analysis for operating nuclear reactors. Primary focus was on quantitative risk assessments using the SAPHIRE software, as well as the development of PRA tools for use in analyzing external events (e.g., internal fire, seismic, external flooding).

San Antonio, Texas Area

Worked as a Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analysis (CNWRA) in the Geosciences and Engineering Division (GED). At SwRI, responsabilities included prelicensing activities in support of US NRC High-Level Waste program, development of risk-informed, performance-based regulatory guidance, performance assessment of a potential repository, Probabilistic Risk Assessment-related issues (e.g., system reliability, uncertainty analysis, probabilistic seismic analysis), and research and development of probabilistic methods of analysis in geotechnical engineering and in computational simulations of waste handling facilities.

Milan Area, Italy

Ph.D., Civil Engineering

M.S., Civil Engineering

B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering