Dr. Brian Green is the Senior Technical Advisor for Human Factors in the office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). He provides technical support to NRC human factors experts, conducts strategic planning, supports human factors research efforts, advises senior NRC managers, and supports international human factors activities.
Previously, Brian was the Senior Human Factors Engineer & Team Lead where he managed a team of human factors experts performing licensing reviews of nuclear power plant control room designs. In addition to ensuring that human-system interfaces met applicable regulations, his team also developed regulations and technical guidance to support regulatory reviews of advanced reactors and conducted pre-application meetings with advanced reactor designers.
Before becoming Team Lead, Brian worked for several years as an NRC technical reviewer performing licensing reviews for several reactor designs like NuScale, AP1000, KHNP, APWR and many license amendments supporting the operating fleet of reactors in the U.S.
Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering, specializing in human factors, at the University at Buffalo where he studied the effects of automation reliability on human trust. While he was there, he conducted several research studies related to and human factors safety and security in the aviation industry at the Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation. He also earned a B.A. in psychology and a B.S. in sound recording technology from the State University of New York at Fredonia.