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No. 96-53 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Monday, March 25, 1996)
NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS
TO MEET APRIL 11-13
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee
on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical
meeting April 11-13 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
March 25 edition of the Federal Register.
The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to
discuss proprietary information.
Here is the complete meeting agenda:
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
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
regarding proposed final revisions to NRC regulations related
to reactor site criteria.
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
regarding domestic and foreign research activities in the
severe accident area.
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
concerning NRC's graded quality assurance program.
3:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. -- Discussion of planning and
procedures matters.
4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed reports
to the NRC.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
8:35 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
regarding items of mutual interest, including activities
associated with the development of risk-informed and
performance-based regulations, risk-based performance
indicators and spent fuel pools.
10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
regarding activities of NRC's Spent Fuel Project Office,
including decommissioning, health effects of low-level
radiation and a proposed standard review plan for dry cask
storage systems.
11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. -- Future ACRS activities.
11:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion of responses from
the NRC's executive director for operations to ACRS
recommendations.
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. -- Discussion with Westinghouse
Electric and NRC staff regarding the Westinghouse best-estimate
emergency core cooling system computer code for
thermal hydraulics.
2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. -- Discussions with the Nuclear
Energy Institute concerning experience gained through use of
the NRC's RuleNet in the rulemaking process.
3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Continue discussion of
proposed ACRS reports.
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. -- Continue discussion of
proposed ACRS reports.
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. -- Discussion of items of
significant importance to the 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.)
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(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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