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No. 96-98 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Wednesday, July 10, 1996)
NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS
TO MEET AUGUST 8-10
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor
Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting August 8-10 in
Rockville, Maryland.
The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in
Conference Room 2B3 in the NRC's Two White Flint North Building at 11545
Rockville Pike.
Although meetings of the ACRS are open to the public, they are not
part of the NRC's public hearing process. The ACRS, an advisory group to
the Commission, conducts independent, highly technical reviews of safety
considerations related to nuclear facilities. While anyone may attend,
the committee will consider only oral or written statements arranged in
advance and limited to specific matters set forth in a Notice of Meeting
published in the July 3 edition of the Federal Register.
The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to discuss
proprietary information.
Here is the complete meeting agenda:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. -- Opening remarks by the ACRS chairman.
8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. -- Discussion with the NRC staff, General
Electric (GE) and ABB-Combustion Engineering (ABB-CE) regarding proposed
changes to designs of GE's advanced boiling water reactor and ABB-CE's
System 80+ reactor.
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff and
Westinghouse Electric concerning staff positions on three policy issues
dealing with prevention and mitigation of severe accidents, post-72-hour
actions and external reactor vessel cooling. The committee will also
discuss the status of resolving seven technical issues pertaining to
Westinghouse's AP600 reactor design.
2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff regarding risk-informed inservice testing requirements and performance-based
regulations.
4:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. -- Discussion of a report by the chairman of
the ACRS subcommittee on instrumentation and control systems.
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed reports to the
NRC.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9
8:35 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff concerning
risk-based analysis of reactor operating experience.
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff regarding its
review of safety issues associated with spent fuel pool cooling systems.
11:15 a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion of planning and procedures
matters.
1:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. -- Future ACRS activities.
1:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. -- Discussion of responses from the NRC's
executive director for operations to ACRS recommendations.
2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed ACRS
reports.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed ACRS
reports.
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. -- Discuss items of significance to NRC.
Persons wishing to submit statements on any of these topics may do
so by providing a readily reproducible copy to the committee or by
mailing it to the Executive Director, Advisory Committee on Reactor
Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001.
(ACRS meeting schedules are subject to change. Anyone planning to
attend should confirm the schedule the day before the meeting by calling
301/415-5024.)
(NOTE TO EDITORS: The use of self-contained tape recorders in the
meeting room is permitted during open portions of the meeting when a
transcript is being kept. The use of still, motion picture and
television cameras--the physical installation and presence of which will
not interfere with the course of the meeting--will be permitted both
before and after the meeting, during any recess, and, at the discretion
of the committee chairman, while the meeting is in session.)
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