96-23513. Twenty-Fourth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 179 (Friday, September 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48512-48513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23513]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Twenty-Fourth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Twenty-Fourth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting 
will be held on October 21-23, 1996, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the 
Bethesda Marriott Hotel, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland 
20814.
    The Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting will be opened by NRC 
Commissioner Kenneth C. Rogers as the keynote speaker for the plenary 
session on Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Regulation. Panelists will 
include vice presidents from two nuclear utilities and senior 
management from NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. A second 
plenary session will be held on Wednesday morning and will address the 
Role of Research in Nuclear Regulation. NRC's James M. Taylor, 
Executive Director for Operations, will chair a panel of international 
executives representing research, regulatory, and industry points of 
view. Themis P. Speis, Deputy Director, RES, will speak at the luncheon 
on Tuesday, October 22.
    The meeting is international in scope and includes presentations by 
personnel from the NRC, U. S. Government laboratories, private 
contractors, universities, the Electric Power Research Institute, 
reactor vendors, and a number of foreign agencies. This meeting is 
sponsored by the NRC and conducted by the Brookhaven National 
Laboratory.
    The preliminary agenda for this year's meeting includes 7 sessions, 
along with the panel discussions, on the following topics; High Burnup 
Fuel, Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement and Thermal Annealing, 
Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Human Reliability Assessment, and 
Digital Instrumentation and Control, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard 
Assessment and Seismic Siting Criteria, Reactor Vessel Lower Head 
Integrity, Containment and Structural Aging, and Steam Generator Tube 
Integrity.
    Attendees may register at the meeting or in advance by contacting 
Susan

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Monteleone, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Nuclear 
Energy, Building 130, Upton, NY 11973, telephone [phone]; or 
Christine Bonsby, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone [phone].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September, 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Alois J. Burda,
Deputy Director, Financial Management, Procurement and Administration 
Staff, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 96-23513 Filed 9-12-96; 8:45 am]
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