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RESEARCH AND

Carl J. Paperiello, Director, RES

January 10, 2006
OVERVI EW

* Desired Outcomes

* International Activities - Scope

* Foreign Assignees

* Selected Programs

* Summary

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Research Cooperative

Desired Outcomes

* Efficiency, effectiveness, safety and security

* Availability of physical facilities

* Ensure current state of Agency knowledge incorporates the

results of international research

and analyses

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What Research Activities

* Experiments - Empiricism

* Verification and Validation

* Technical Data/lnformation

* Indirect Benefits - International

consistency

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Current Cooperative

Research Activities

* Approx. 90 Bilateral or Multilateral

agreements with 22 countries

* NRC provides intellectual capital,

expert analysis, and experience

to the international programs

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Current Cooperative

Research Activities

(cont'd)

* NRC contributes approx. $3.9M/yr

to international programs

conducted in the U.S. and abroad

- NRC contributions range

between $1 OK/yr to $1 .2M/yr

* Participants contribute approx.

$1.1 M/yr to Agency Programs

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Areas of International

Cooperation

* Reactor Vessel and Piping

Integrity

* Aging of Reactor Components

* Thermal-Hydraulic Code

Assessment and Application

* Nuclear Fuels Analysis

* Plant Performance

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Areas of International

Cooperation (cont'd)

* Seismic Safety

* Probabilistic Risk Assessment

* Severe Accidents

* Reactor Containment Structural

Integrity

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Areas of International

Cooperation (contd)

* Dry Cask Storage and Transport

* Decommissioning

* Fire Protection

* Human Reliability

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Multilateral Agreements

* MASCA

* CABRI

* MCCI

* PKL

* Fire Project -

Data Base

* HALDEN

* COMPSIS

* ROSA

* PAKS

* SCIP

* SERENA

* SETH

* IPDE - Data

* ICDE - Data

Base

Base

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Bilateral Agreements

* CAMP

* CSARP

* SGTI-III

* Seismic

Research

* ARTIST (PSI

Switzerland)

* PPS-BAM

* Fire Research

(I RSN-France)

* NDE-PWSCC

(PINC)

* Phebus-Fission

Products

* Phebus Source

Term

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Active Participation in

OECDINEA

CommitteelWorking

Groups

* CSNI

* PRG

* WGRISK

* WGIAGE

* GAMA-WG

* CRPPH

* SEGFSM

* SEGHOF

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Other International

Initiatives

* PROSIR-RR

* QUAMET

* NESC-4

* ISAB

* FBMSR-RRC

* MCMA-IBRAE

* IEASP

* MERIT

* PERECT

* SMILE

* VOCALIST

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Recent Foreign Assignees

* RES hosted 6 assignees in the last

5 years from: Switzerland, Sweden, and Korea

* Assignment areas included.

thermal-hydraulics, severe

accident analysis, code modeling; environmentally assisted stress

corrosion cracking analysis; and

probabilistic risk assessment

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Example Projects

* PAKS Fuel Project

* Phebus-FP

* Cabri

* Japanese Collaboration on

Seismic Issues

* CAMP

* CSARP

* MCCI Project

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SUMMARY

* International research has

supported NRC programs

* Review projects to ensure

continued relevance to NRC

programs

* Knowledge Management

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ACRONYMS

* ARTIST - Aerosol Trapping in a Steam Generator

* BAM - Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing of

Germany

* CABRI - the CABRI facility is a research reactor located in

France

* CAMP - (Thermal-Hydraulic) Code Application and Maintenance

Program

* COMPSIS - Computer-Based Systems Important to Safety

* COOPRA - Cooperative Probabilistic Risk Assessment

* CRPPH - Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health

* CSARP - Cooperative Severe Accident Research Program

* CSNI - Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations

* EPR - Evolutionary Power Reactor (a.k.a. European PWR)

* FBMSR - Fuel Behavior and Material Science Research

* GAMA - (Working) Group on the Analysis and Management of

Accidents

* GSI - Generic Safety Issue

* Halden - Halden Reactor Project in Norway

* I&C - Instrumentation and Controls

* IBRAE - Russian Institute of Nuclear Safety

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ACRONYMS (cont'd)

* ICDE - International Common-Cause Data Exchange

* IEASP - Information Exchange on Accident Sequence Precursor Results, Data, Insights, and Methodology

* IPDE - International Piping Database Exchange

* IRSN - Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (France)

* ISAB - International Subchannel Analysis Benchmark

* ISG-TIP-3 - International Steam Generator-Tube Integrity Program-3

* LBLOCA - large break loss of coolant accident

* LOCA - loss of coolant accident

* MASCA - Material Scaling

* MCCI - Melt Coolability and Concrete Interaction

* MCMA - MELCOR Code Modernization and Assessment

* MERIT - Maximizing Enhancements in Risk Informed

Technology

* MOX - Mixed-Oxide Fuel

* NDE - Non-Destructive Examination

* NEA - Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA)

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ACRONYMS (cont'd)

* NESC-4 - Network for Evaluating Structure Components

* OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

* PAKS - Paks fuel project

* PERECT - Prediction of Irradiation Damage Effects in Reactor

Components

* PINC - Program for the Inspection of Nickel Alloy Components

* PKL - Primarkreislauf Test Facility, an integral thermal hydraulic test facility located in Erlangen, Germany

* PPS - Package Performance Study PRA - Probabilistic Risk

AssessmenvAnalysis

* PRG - Program Review Group

* PROSIR-RR - Probabilistic Structural Integrity of a PWR Reactor

Pressure Vessel-Round Robin

* PWSCC - Primary Water Stress Corrosion Cracking

* QUAMET - Qualification Methodology

* ROSA - Rig of Safety Assessment

* RRC - Russian Research Center-Kurchatov Institute

* SBLOCA - Small break loss of coolant accident

* SCIP - Studsvik Cladding Integrity Project

* SERENA - Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Application
ACRONYMS (cont'd)

* SETH - Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research

Facilities and Programs Thermal Hydraulics

* SEGFSM - Special Experts Group on Fuel Safety Margins

* SEGHOF - Special Experts Group on Human and

Organizational Factors

* SGTI - Steam Generator Tube Integrity-Phase Ill

* SMILE - Structural Margin Improvements in Aged-Embrittled reactor pressure vessel with Load History Effects

* SNAP - Symbolic Nuclear Analysis Program (graphical user

Interface)

* TRACE - TRAC RELAP Advanced Computational Engine

* U0 2 - Uranium Oxide

* WG - Working Group

* WGIAGE - Working Group on Integrity and Aging

* WGRISK - Working Group on Risk Assessment

* VOCALIST - Validation of Constraint-Based Methodology in

Structural Integrity

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