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Briefing on NMSS Programs,

Performance, and Plans

-Materials Safety

Jack Strosnider, NMSS

March 7' 2005
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Agenda

* Overview

X Major program accomplishments

* Challenges

* Strategies for success

* Risk-informing strategies

e Commission interactions and policy issues

e Summary

2
Overview

* Diverse fuel cycle and materials

safety programs pose unique

challenges

* Subject to changing landscape

* Management/staff commitment to

continuous improvement meets

these challenges

3
Major Program

Accomplishments

* Achieved all FY 2004 strategic and

performance goals

- Safety & Security

Public Confidence/Openness

Effectiveness/EERT

Management

* On track to achieve FY 2005 goals

4
Fuel Facilities

* Existing Uranium Processing and Fuel

Production Facilities

- Supported viable domestic nuclear fuel

options for U.S. reactors

* New Facilities

- Addressed unique challenges

- Progress in licensing both gas centrifuge

facilities is consistent with the Commission

schedule

* Inspection and Enforcement

- Risk-informed inspection process

- Undertook enforcement actions

5
Nuclear Materials

* Medical, Industrial and Academic

- Exceeded internal timeliness metrics

for materials licensing actions and

inspections

Ensured safety and security of sources

Made significant progress in

implementing web-based licensing

system

6
Rulemakings and Standards'

Recently completed:

- Portable Gauge Security final rule

- Spent Fuel Cask Certificates (5)

- Part 71 Compatibility with IAEA transportation

standards

- Part 35 Training & Experience

- Petitions

e Stakeholders continue to play important

role in rulemaking process

e Communication between Offices on

rulemaking issues increasing

7
Challenges

* Emerging work

- Unique

- Technically complex

* Balance between openness and security

* Competing for specialized critical skills;

maintaining staff capabilities

* Maintaining up-to-date infrastructure

* Potentially new legislated mandates

8
Trends in Activities

CASE LOAD TRENDS OTHER DRIVERS

FulFacilitieis | Technical Complexity

Changing Environment

U Coordination

INuclear Materials

II

I Critical Skills

New approach to work

pM

I NMSS Rulemaking I

I=

* Security and

international activities

Caseload x Other Drivers = Resources

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Strategies for Success

Commitment to continuous improvement

by increasing organizational capacity

- Eliminate activities that do not contribute

substantially to our goals

- Streamline and improve processes and

procedures

- Improve communication

- Modify and update IT systems

- Maintain a flexible infrastructure

- Recruit and retain critical skills

- Be aware of what the future may bring

10
Risk-Informing Strategies

@ Increased effectiveness and efficiency

by focusing on areas commensurate

with their importance to safety

* Eliminated or reduced unnecessary

work

11
Integration of Activities

* Integrated management teams

* Cross-cutting training

* Cross-utilization of staff

* Coordination with others

* Transferred knowledge of hearing

process and stakeholder

involvement

12
Commission Interactions

* Criteria for Control of Solid Materials

@ MOUs with Nebraska and Wyoming

* Exemptions from licensing and distribution of

byproduct material

* Use of institutional controls at UMTRCA Title 11

site

* Part 63 conforming regulations with EPA

standard

* Security rulemakings

* Rulemaking to reduce funding shortfalls for

decommissioning

* International radiation protection standards

13
Policy Issues

l Security

* National Materials Program

* Implementing code of conduct

* National Source Tracking

Rulemaking

* Part 40 Issues

14
Summary

* Challenges will continue

* Continuous improvement is essential to

address these challenges

* NMSS management and staff are

committed to achieving NRC's strategic

and performance goals in the most

effective and efficient way we can

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ACRONYMS FOR MATERIALS PRESENTATION SLIDES

EERT Effective, Efficient, Realistic and Timely

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

IT/IM Information Technology/information Management

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

NMSS Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

UMTRCA Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act
ACRONYMS FOR MATERIALS AND WASTE COMMISSION BRIEFINGS

(these may be discussed during the meetings)

ACMUI Advisory Committee on Medical Use of Isotopes

ACNP American College of Nuclear Physicians

ACNW Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste

ACR-700 Advanced Candu Reactor

ACRS Advisory Committee on Reactor Safety

ADAMS Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

AEA Atomic Energy Act

AID Agency for International Development

AIF Assured Isolation Facility

AIT Augmented Inspection Team

AMP Authorized Medical Physicists

ANL Argonne National Laboratory

ANP Authorized Nuclear Pharmacist

ANPR Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

ANS American Nuclear Society

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ARM Accelerator-produced radioactive material

ASAM Application of Safety Assessment Methodologies for Near-Surface Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities

ASLB Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

ASM Additional Security Measure

AU Authorized Users

BEIR Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, Committee on the

BLEU Blended Low-Enriched Uranium

BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Limited

BPF BLEU Preparation Facility

BPI Business process improvement

BREDL Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League

BSC Bechtel SAIC

BWXT BWX Technologies, Inc., a fuel cycle facility

CAR Construction Authorization Request

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CMS Consequence Management Subgroup, Department of Homeland Security

CNSC Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

CNWRA Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses

CoC Certificate of Compliance

CORAR Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals
2

CRCPD Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors

CRP Coordinated Research Project

CRPPH Committee on Radiation Protection, and Public Health (Nuclear Energy Agency Committee)

CSA Cognizant Security Agency

CY Calendar Year

DCS Duke Cogema Stone and Webster

DDMS Digital Data Management System

DEDO Deputy Executive Director for Operations

DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement

DGEIS Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DOE Department of Energy

DOT Department of Transportation

DP Decommissioning Plan

DS Draft Standard

DWM Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety & Safeguards

EA Environmental Assessment

EERT Effective, Efficient, Realistic and Timely

EGIR Nuclear Energy Agency Expert Group on Implications of the ICRP Recommendations

EIS Environmental Impact Statement

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPRI Electric Power Research Institute

ESBWR General Electric Simplified Boiling Water Reactor

EU European Union

FANP Framatome ANP

FCSS Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement

FFLI Fuel Facilities Licensing and Inspection

FR Federal Register

FRA Federal Railroad Administration

FRN Federal Register Notice

FSC Forum on Stakeholder Confidence

FUSRAP Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

FSER Final Safety Evaluation Report

FWENC Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation

FY Fiscal Year

GAN Gosatomnadzor (Russian Federation Nuclear Regulatory Agency)

GANE Georgians Against Nuclear Energy

GCEP Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant
3

GDPs Gaseous Diffusion Plants

GEIS Generic Environmental Impact Statement

GL General License

GLTS General License Tracking System

GNFA Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas LLC (A fuel cycle facility)

GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

GSA General Services Administration

GTCC Greater Than Class C

HAZMAT Hazardous Materials

HEU Highly-enriched Uranium

HF Hydrofluoric Acid

HI-STAR Holtec International's dry cask storage design planned for use at ISFSI

HRA Human Reliability Assessment

HLW High Level Waste

HLWRS Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety

IA Interagency Agreement

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

ICC Interagency Coordinating Committee

1CM Interim Compensatory Measures

ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection

IIRSR Integrated Issue Resolution Status Report

IMC Inspection Manual Chapter

IMNS Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

IMPEP Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation Program

IND Improvised Nuclear Device

INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

INES International Nuclear Events Scale

INMM Institute of Nuclear Materials Management

IP Inspection Procedures

IRIS Westinghouse International Reactor Innovative and Secure

ISA Integrated Safety Analysis

ISCORS Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards

ISF Idaho Spent Fuel Facility (also referred to as Foster-Wheeler and 2nd ISFSI @ INEEL)

ISFSI Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

ISG Interim Staff Guidance

ISLs In-Situ Leach facilities

IT/IM Information Technology/Information Management

KTIs Key Technical Issues

LA License Application
4

LANL

LES

LEU

LLRW

LLW

LLWPA

LPR

LORAM

LSN

LSNA

LSN ARP

LTP

LTR

LTS

MC

MC&A

MCNSNS

MDNR

MELOX

MFFF

Mul

MOU

MOX

NA

NAC

NAS

NCRP

NEA

NEI

NEPA

NFS BLEU

NFS/IUSA

NISA

NGO

NMP

NMSS

NNSA

NORM

NPL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Louisiana Energy Services

Low-enriched Uranium

Low-Level Radioactive Waste

Low-Level Waste

Low-Level Waste Policy Act

License Performance Reviews

Large Quantity Radioactive Material

Licensing Support Network

LSN Administrator

LSN Advisory Review Panel

License Termination Plan

License Termination Rule

License Tracking System

Manual Chapter

Material Control and Accounting

Mexican Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias (Mexico Nuclear Regulatory Agency)

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Nuclear facility in France

Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility

Management Improvement Initiatives

Memorandum of Understanding

Mixed Oxide

National Academy

Nuclear Assurance Corporation

National Academy of Sciences

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

Nuclear Energy Agency

Nuclear Energy Institute

National Environmental Policy Act

Nuclear Fuel Services Blended Low-Enriched Uranium Project

Nuclear Fuel Services/international Uranium Corporation (USA)

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Japan Nuclear Regulatory Agency)

Non-Government Organization

National Materials Program

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

National Nuclear Security Administration

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material

National Priorities List
5

NRDC National Resources Defense Council

NRR Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

NTEU National Treasury Employees Union

NSIR Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response

NUHOMS spent fuel storage cask design

NWPA Nuclear Waste Policy Act

OAS Organization of Agreement States

OCAA Office of Commission Appellate Adjucation

OCIO Office of the Chief Information Officer

OCRWM Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management at Department of Energy

OEDO Office of the Executive Director for Operations

OGC Office of the General Counsel

OHR Office of Human Resources

OIP Office of International Programs

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OPA Office of Public Affairs

ORIA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air at Environmental Protection Agency

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORP Department of Energy Hanford Office of River Protection

OSART Operational Safety Assessment Review Team (IAEA)

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSTP Office of State and Tribal Programs

PADEP Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

PART Program Assessment Rating Tool

PBPM Planning, Budgeting, and Performance Management

PCSA Pre Closure Safety Analysis

PFS Private Fuel Storage (An away-from reactor, spent fuel storage facility license applicant)

PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Company

PIRCS Performance Identification, Resolution, and Corrective Action System

PMDA Program Management, Policy Development, and Analysis Staff, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

PPS Package Performance Study

PRA Probabilistic Risk Assessment

PRI Power Resources, Inc., a uranium recovery company

QA Quality Assurance

R&R Roles and Responsiblity

RAI Request for Additional Information

RASSC Radiation Safety Standards Committee

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RDD Radiological Dispersal Device
6

RED

RES

RESRAD

RIDM

RIPA

RIRIP

RIS

ROP

RSO

RTG

RTSG

RWMC

SAFSTOR

SAR

SbF5

SDMP

SER

SESCDP

SFPO

SGI-M

SLOMFP

SNF

SNL

SNM

SRM

SRP

SRS

STP

SWR-1 000

SWU

T&E

TAR

TCM

TECDOC

TENORM

TMI

TN

TPA

TRANSAS

Radiological Exposure Device

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research

A computer code for calculating doses from residual radioactivity for site cleanups

Risk Informed Decision Making

Reactor Inspection and Performance Assessment

Risk-informed Regulation Implementation Plan

Regulatory Issues Summary

Reactor Oversight Program

Radiation Safety Officers

Risk Task Group, Office of Nuclear Material Safety & Safeguards

Radioactive Transport Study Group

Nuclear Energy Agency Radioactive Waste Management Committee

delayed dismantlement of facility undergoing decommissioning

Safety Analysis Report

Antimony pentafluoride

Site Decommissioning Management Plan

Safety Evaluation Report

Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program

Spent Fuel Project Office, Office of Nuclear Material Safety & Safeguards

Safeguards Information - Modified Handling

San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace

Spent Nuclear Fuel

Sandia National Laboratories

Special Nuclear Material

Staff Requirements Memorandum

Standard Review Plan

Savannah River Site

Office of State and Tribal Programs

Framatome Advanced Boiling Water Reactor

Separative Work Unit

Training and Experience

Technical Assistance Request

Technical Committee Meeting (IAEA)

Technical Document (IAEA)

Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material

Three Mile Island reactor plant

Transnuclear

Total Performance Assessment

Transport Safety Appraisal Service (IAEA)
7

TRANSSC

TTC

TVA

UF6

UMTRCA

UNB

UNSCEAR

USEC

UR

USACE

USCS

VA

WASSC

WEC

WIPP

WIR

WPDD

WVDP

YM

YMRP

Transportation Safety Standards Committee (IAEA)

Technical Training Center

Tennessee Valley Authority

Uranium hexafluoride

Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act

Uranyl Nitrate Building

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

United States Enrichment Company

Uranium Recovery

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Customs

Vulnerability Analysis

Waste Safety Standards Committee

Westinghouse Electric Company

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Waste-Incidental-to-Reprocessing

The Working Party on Management of Materials from Decommissioning and Dismantling

West Valley Demonstration Project

Yucca Mountain

Yucca Mountain Review Plan