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No. 96-64 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Tuesday, May 7, 1996)
NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS
TO MEET ON MAY 23-25
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting May
23-25 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.
As part of the meeting, the committee will meet with the NRC
Commissioners from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on May 24 in the NRC's
One White Flint Building, 11555 Rockville Pike, to discuss items
of mutual interest. The items include the use of independent
plant examinations of nuclear power plants, fire protection
issues, proposed changes to NRC regulations dealing with reactor
siting criteria and documents related to digital instrumentation
and control systems.
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 May 6 edition of the Federal Register.
The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to
discuss proprietary information.
Here is the complete meeting agenda:
THURSDAY, MAY 23
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 a report on insights of individual plant examination,
with emphasis on safety goal issues.
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
concerning a proposed rule on operations at nuclear power plants
during shutdowns and the results of a study of shutdown risk at
two nuclear plants that agreed to participate in the analysis--Surry in Virginia and Grand Gulf in Mississippi.
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
regarding sections of the NRC's standard review plan, regulatory
guides and branch technical positions related to digital
instrumentation and control systems in nuclear power plants.
3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff
concerning the status of resolving and implementing
recommendations of the NRC's Regulatory Review Group.
4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed reports to
the NRC.
FRIDAY, MAY 24
8:35 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. -- Discussion of items for meeting
with the NRC Commissioners.
11:a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion of planning and
procedures matters.
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. -- Future ACRS activities.
1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. -- Discussion of responses from the
NRC's executive director for operations to ACRS recommendations.
1:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed
ACRS reports.
SATURDAY, MAY 25
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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