RELIABILITY AND RISK ASSESSMENT GROUP
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY’S NUCLEAR SERVICE DIVISION

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

Mr. Bishop has been at Westinghouse for almost 35 years, working primarily in the area of structural reliability analysis, initially on breeder reactor core components and then on light water RPVs, piping and other primary loop components. During this time, Mr. Bishop developed and applied the structural reliability and risk assessment (SRRA) models, methods and software PFM analyses supporting a number of risk informed inspection initiatives. Included are the SRRA applications for most plant piping, reactor internals and reactor coolant pump components, and the irradiated belt line region, head penetration nozzles and nozzle inner radius region of the RPV. Mr. Bishop has been the recipient of six George Westinghouse Signature Awards for Engineering Excellence and two Special Recognition Awards from the ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Division for conference tutorials on Application of Probabilistic Structural Mechanics. He has participated in the development and presentation of numerous Westinghouse technical reports and more than 35 publications on application of structural reliability to risk informed decisions, including a chapter on pressure vessel and piping applications in the Probabilistic Structural Mechanics Handbook. Mr. Bishop, a member of the editorial boards for Reliability Engineering and System Safety and Nuclear Engineering and Design, is currently a member of the ASME Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division and the ASME Codes and Standards Working Groups on Implementation of Risk-Based Inspection and Operating Plant Criteria (for RPV integrity issues). He also actively participates in the PWR Materials Reliability Program (MRP) Issue Task Groups on Reactor Vessel Integrity and Alloy-600 Issues, including the PFM analyses of the RPV during postulated PTS events and the Alloy 82/182 butt welds that are subject to PWSCC.