2024-09790. NUREG: Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2023; Dissemination of Information

AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Final report; issuance.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-0090, Volume 46, “Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2023.” The report describes those events that the NRC or an Agreement State identified as abnormal occurrences (AOs) during fiscal year (FY) 2023, based on the criteria defined by the Commission. The report describes nine events at Agreement State-licensed facilities and two events at NRC-licensed facilities.

DATES:

NUREG-0090, Volume 46, is available May 6, 2024.

ADDRESSES:

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0079 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly available information related to this document using any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0079. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: [phone]; email: [e-mail]. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information Contact section of this document.

• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. To begin the search, select “Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.” For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737, or by email to [e-mail]. The FY 2023 AO report, NUREG-0090, Volume 46, “Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2023 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML24121A231).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rigel Flora, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: [phone]; email: [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended (Pub. L. 93-438), defines an “abnormal occurrence” as an unscheduled incident or event that the NRC determines to be significant from the standpoint of public health or safety. The FY 2023 AO report, NUREG-0090, Volume 46, “Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2023” describes those events that the NRC identified as AOs during FY 2023.

This report describes nine events involving Agreement State licensees and two events involving NRC licensees. Seven of the AOs occurred at medical facilities, three AOs involved the theft or diversion and recovery of Category 2 radioactive material sources, and the other event involved an overexposure.

The NRC identified no events at NRC-licensed facilities during FY 2023 that met the guidelines for inclusion in Appendix B, “Other Events of Interest.”

One event met the guidelines for inclusion in Appendix C, “Updates of Previously Reported Abnormal Occurrences.”

Agreement States are the 39 U.S. States that currently have entered into formal agreements with the NRC pursuant to section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA), to regulate certain quantities of AEA-licensed material at facilities located within their borders.

The Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-68) requires that AOs be reported to Congress annually. The full report, NUREG-0090, Volume 46, “Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2023,” is also available electronically at the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​doc-collections/​nuregs/​staff.

Dated: May 1, 2024.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Carrie Safford,

Secretary of the Commission.