United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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No. 96-117 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Thursday, August 29, 1996)

NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS

TO MEET SEPTEMBER 12-13

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on

Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting

September 12-13 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 August 28 edition of the Federal Register.

The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to

discuss proprietary information.

Here is the complete meeting agenda:

Thursday, September 12

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 NRC staff

regarding the adequacy of computer codes to analyze steam

generator tube temperature distributions during severe accident

conditions.

11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. -- Discussion of responses from the

NRC's executive director for operations to ACRS recommendations.

11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. -- Discussion of planning and

procedures matters.
11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. -- Future ACRS activities.

1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. -- Discussion with New York Power

Authority regarding shutdown and restart issues for the Indian

Point 3 nuclear power plant in New York.

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed reports to

the NRC.

5:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Discussion of items of significant

importance to the NRC.

Friday, September 13

8:35 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. -- Discuss items of mutual interest

with the NRC's director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research.

10:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion with NRC staff

regarding findings of an augmented inspection team that

investigated a loss of feedwater event in May at Arkansas Nuclear

1.

1:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. -- Discuss proposed reports 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.)