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Home > Electronic Reading Room > Document Collections > Commission Documents > Commission Meetings, Slides, Transcripts, Meeting SRMs, and Full Written Explanation for Closed Meetings > 1997 > Meeting SRM M971015

IN RESPONSE, PLEASE
REFER TO: M971015

November 18, 1997

The Commission was briefed by the NRC staff on recent accomplishments, the status of on-going activities, and future tasks in the staff's efforts to ensure timely and integrated agency-wide use of PRA technology and methodology in NRC regulatory activities. The Commission encouraged the staff to continue to improve the agency's PRA activities and to provide appropriate review and feedback mechanisms to ensure that PRA is appropriately used in a risk-informed regulatory framework and continues to foster a risk-informed regulatory process.

The Commission also requested that the staff:

• in their forthcoming paper identifying the issues raised during the workshop on NRC's draft guidance documents include a discussion of how much variability and what degree of uncertainty in PRAs performed by licensees can be tolerated for regulatory purposes in a risk-informed regulatory framework.

• address at the next periodic briefing on the PRA Implementation Plan the extent to which the Commission's objective of establishing a risk-informed regulatory program has been communicated effectively to the NRC staff and to licensees and other external stakeholders.