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No. 96-98 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Wednesday, July 10, 1996)

NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS

TO MEET AUGUST 8-10

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on

Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting

August 8-10 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 July 3 edition of the Federal Register.

The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to

discuss proprietary information.

Here is the complete meeting agenda:

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8

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,

General Electric (GE) and ABB-Combustion Engineering (ABB-CE)

regarding proposed changes to designs of GE's advanced boiling

water reactor and ABB-CE's System 80+ reactor.

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff and

Westinghouse Electric concerning staff positions on three policy

issues dealing with prevention and mitigation of severe

accidents, post-72-hour actions and external reactor vessel
cooling. The committee will also discuss the status of resolving

seven technical issues pertaining to Westinghouse's AP600 reactor

design.

2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff

regarding risk-informed inservice testing requirements and

performance-based regulations.

4:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. -- Discussion of a report by the

chairman of the ACRS subcommittee on instrumentation and control

systems.

5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed reports to

the NRC.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9

8:35 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff

concerning risk-based analysis of reactor operating experience.

9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff

regarding its review of safety issues associated with spent fuel

pool cooling systems.

11:15 a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion of planning and

procedures matters.

1:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. -- Future ACRS activities.

1:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. -- Discussion of responses from the

NRC's executive director for operations to ACRS recommendations.

2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed

ACRS reports.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed

ACRS reports.

12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. -- Discuss items of significance to

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.)
(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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