Sinda Kahia

Nuclear Quality, Safety and Licensing Manager @ NRG PALLAS

About

Experienced nuclear licensing and safety leader with a demonstrated history in new builds and operational nuclear power plants and research reactors. Strong project management professional skilled in safety assessment, nuclear licensing and quality management. Currently managing the team responsible for the nuclear safety case, licensing and compliance of PALLAS reactor and for the quality assurance and quality control of the supply chain during construction.

Country

City

Netherlands

Industry

Utilities

Skill

Gestion de projet, Évaluation des risques, Nucléaire, Ingénierie de projet, Octroi de licence, Gestion de la qualité, Gestion de la qualité des fournisseurs, Safety Engineering, EPR, Pressurized Water Reactors, Nuclear Engineering, Risk Analysis, Safety Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Root Cause Analysis, Engineering, Risk Management, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Process Safety, Nuclear

Experience

Nuclear Quality, Safety and Licensing Manager

NRG PALLAS

2023-12 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Pays-Bas

Quality Assurance and quality control management of the supply chain, management of the safety case and nuclear licensing process of PALLAS reactor, nuclear compliance

Safety Demonstration Manager

PALLAS Programme

2019-4 - 2023-12 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Alkmaar Area, Netherlands

Process owner of the safety demonstration Manager of the safety demonstration team Responsible for the safety case and nuclear licensing of PALLAS reactor.

Licensing and Safety Expert

PALLAS Programme

2016-1 - 2019-3 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Alkmaar Area, Netherlands

Management of site characterisation studies Participation to the tender phase for Designer: drafting of project and technical requirements related to safety and licensing, dialogue with vendors, tender assessment Preparation phase of the nuclear licensing process including regular meetings with the nuclear regulator, management of pre-licensing documentation

Risk and Reliability Consultant

NRG PALLAS

2013-10 - 2016-1 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Performance of Risk Analyses in the nuclear sector Project manager of Probabilistic Safety Analyses of research reactors in Petten and Delft

Safety Engineer

Framatome

2008-11 - 2013-10 · 5 yrs

Paris Area, France

• Performance of Probabilistic Safety Analyses (PSA) on EPR New Builds projects • Management of junior engineers and contractors • Technical competences in: -- Risk Assessment Tools (FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, HAZOP...) – Risk-Informed Applications – System Reliability Analysis – Shutdown PSA – Initiating Event Analysis – Beyond Design Basis Accidents Analysis • Technical Coordinator of Framatome Owner's Group Risk Informed Applications: Working Group on Risk-Informed Applications and PSA with EDF, Eskom, KHNP, DNMC, Vattenfall, Tractebel… • Technical leader of a three-week training on Level 1 PSA for CGNPC engineers • Instructor for the “PSA” training session as part of a generic engineering program

Risk and Reliability Engineer

Framatome

2011-11 - 2012-5 · 7 mos

Greater Boston Area

Six months assignment to the United States to participate in risk analyses of US EPR certification project

Internship Safety department

Framatome

2008-5 - 2008-9 · 5 mos

Paris Area, France

Participation in the Probabilistic Risk Assessment of UK EPR project

Internship Distillation and Thermal Conversion department

Shell

2007-7 - 2007-12 · 6 mos

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Development of a novel high capacity distillation tray, optimization of the performance, definition of generic design rules.

Internship Research and Development department

Atotech an MKS Brand

2007-1 - 2007-6 · 6 mos

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Development of a process of electrodeposition of chromium from a trivalent chromium electrolyte. Analysis performed: EDX/SEM, XRD, XRF, AA, Corrosion and Wear tests.