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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 performancebased 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.)