[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 181 (Monday, September 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 50842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24379]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Twenty-Seventh Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Twenty-Seventh Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting
will be held on October 25-27, 1999, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the
Bethesda Marriott Hotel, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland.
The Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting will be opened by the
NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Office Director, Ashok C.
Thadani. Commissioner Jeffrey S. Merrifield will be the keynote speaker
for the plenary session on Monday, October 25, 1999 at 9:00 a.m. and
will be followed by an expert panel addressing the issue of the impact
of emerging technologies on nuclear safety research. Panel members
include NRC Commissioner Edward McGaffigan, Jr.; Sigma Xi Director and
Former NRC Chairman, John Ahearne; EPRI Vice President, S&T Development
& Chief Nuclear Officer, Robin Jones; NEI President & CEO, Joe Colvin;
Framatome's Vice President of Corporate Research, Technology & Quality,
M. A. Vallee; and the Department of Energy's Director of Nuclear Energy
Science, & Technology, Bill Magwood. Technical sessions will be held in
the afternoon. Chairman Greta J. Dicus will be the guest speaker on
Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m. and will be followed by technical sessions
that will last until 5:00 p.m. On Wednesday, technical sessions will be
held in the morning beginning at 8:30 a.m. and a plenary session
featuring an expert panel addressing the issue of how best to focus
both on safety and unnecessary burden reduction--the research role,
will be held in the afternoon. Panel members include former NRC Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office Director, Thomas Murley; NRC ACRS
Chairman, Dana Powers; and representatives from the NEI and utility.
This 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 organizations. This meeting is
sponsored by the NRC and conducted by the Brookhaven National
Laboratory.
The preliminary agenda for this year's meeting includes 8 sessions,
along with discussions, on the following topics: Risk-Informed
Regulation; Integrity of Primary Coolant Pressure Boundary; Regulatory
Effectiveness Assessments; High Burnup and Mixed Fuel Oxide Fuel Under
Reactivity Accident Conditions; Fuel Burnup Credit; Fission Product,
Source Terms, and Applications; and Research Supporting New Technology.
Those who wish to attend are encouraged to register in advance on
the newly established WRSM website (www.wrsm.bnl.gov) or by contacting
Susan Monteleone, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Nuclear
Energy, Building 130, Upton, NY 11973, telephone (516) 344-7235; or
Sandra Nesmith (301) 415-6437, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th Day of September, 1999.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Charles E. Ader,
Director, Program Management, Policy Development, & Analysis Staff,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 99-24379 Filed 9-17-99; 8:45 am]
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