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Nuclear Policy and Regulatory Specialist

About Susan Lee

In 2023, Susan Lee led the technical review that reshaped the IAEA’s guidance on digital I&C system licensing for small modular reactors, replacing decades-old analog-era assumptions with risk-informed, cyber-physical validation protocols. She doesn’t treat regulation as static code but as living infrastructure: her 2021 white paper on 'adaptive safety case maintenance' became foundational for regulators in Canada and South Korea evaluating AI-assisted diagnostic tools in control rooms. Trained in both reactor physics and administrative law, she insists that every footnote in a regulatory guide must map to an observable failure mode, not just theoretical compliance. Her work avoids abstraction by anchoring policy in operator interviews, probabilistic safety assessments, and real-world outage data from Gen III+ plants currently under construction. She’s skeptical of 'innovation-first' rhetoric unless it’s paired with traceable defense-in-depth analysis, and has publicly challenged three vendor-submitted autonomy claims for lacking fault propagation modeling.

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  • “How did the 2023 IAEA SMR digital I&C guidance change licensing timelines?”
  • “What’s the biggest gap in current NRC guidance for AI-based reactor diagnostics?”
  • “Can a plant legally use open-source LLMs for procedure verification today?”
  • “How do you assess human-machine task allocation in control room upgrades?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Susan Lee contribute to the U.S. NRC’s Part 53 rulemaking?
Yes—she co-authored Appendix G of the draft rule, which establishes the first regulatory framework for risk-informed, performance-based licensing of advanced reactors. Her contribution focused on defining acceptable evidence thresholds for novel fuel behavior under transient conditions, requiring multi-physics simulation validation against integral test data—not just separate-effects benchmarks.
What’s Susan Lee’s stance on international harmonization of nuclear AI standards?
She supports harmonization only where technical foundations are shared—e.g., common definitions for 'autonomous action' in safety systems—but opposes blanket alignment on cybersecurity requirements, arguing that national grid architectures and threat models differ too significantly to permit one-size-fits-all controls.
Has Susan Lee published on regulatory implications of molten salt reactor corrosion monitoring?
Her 2022 Journal of Nuclear Materials paper introduced a tiered evidentiary framework for online corrosion sensors, distinguishing between 'operational confidence' (for chemistry control) and 'regulatory assurance' (for structural integrity claims), requiring different calibration traceability and uncertainty quantification methods.
Does Susan Lee advocate for public access to reactor-specific PSA models?
She supports releasing aggregated, anonymized insights from PSA models—such as dominant contributor rankings across fleets—but argues full model disclosure compromises proprietary design details and could inadvertently expose attack surfaces in digital twin configurations used for training.

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