Office of Nuclear

Regulatory Research

Programs, Performance,

and Plans

February 8, 2006

Dr. Carl J. Paperiello, Director
Agenda

* Overview

* Programs

* Performance

- Examples

* Management Oversight and

Planning I

* Summary

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Overvieew

* Support Office

* Technical Expertise

* Technically Diverse

* Extensive Collaborations

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Programs: NRR Support

* New Reactors

* Probabilistic Risk Analysis and

Standardized Plant Analysis Risk

(SPAR) Model

* Grid Reliability

* Pressurized Water Reactor Sump

Screens - Chemical Effects

e Fire Protection

* Licensing Support and Casework

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Programs: NRR Support

o Technical Bases for Rulemakings

e Analysis of Operating Events

e Regulatory Guide Revision

e Human Reliability and Human

Factors

* Materials Integrity

e Fuel Performance

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Programs: NMSS Support

* Decommissioning

e Dry Cask Storage

e Licensing Support and Casework

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* Regulatory Guide Revision

* Technical Bases for Rulemakings:

* Cask Burnup Credit

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Programs: NSIR Support

* Security

* Emergency Preparedness

* Incident Response

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Programs: Others

* International and Domestic

Research Agreements

* Generic Safety Issues

* Abnormal Occurrence Report

* Industry Consensus Standards

• Risk Communications

* Safety Culture

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Programs: Others

o Committee to Review Generic

Requirements (CRGR)

* Radiation Exposure Information

and Reporting System

* Support to Regions

Advanced Analyses

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Advanced Analysis

* State-of-the-art reactor

consequence analysis

* Faster than real time analysis tool

for incident response decision

making

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Knowledge Management

* Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs)

* Computer Codes

- Development and Maintenance

-Verification and Validation

-Training and Distribution

* Regulatory Guide Development

and Revisions

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Knowledge Management

* Agency Integration

- Internal (RES Monthly Seminars,

Steering Committees, Revised

-Web Page)

- External (Public Workshops,

Standards Development

Organizations, Cooperative

Programs)

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Examples of Computer

Code Application

O Cask Analysis

* Tube Integrity

* Fuel Pool Predictions

r Power Uprate Reviews

* Boron Dilution

* AP1000 Support

* Reactor Pressure Vessel Integrity

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Code Application

Computational

Fluid Dynamics

Predictions of

Steam

Generator Jim

Tube Ru pture

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Performance

* Realignment and Reorganization

o Improved Communications

* Revised Office Procedures

* -Staff~wia andr Tm'Imm-..

* Central Document Control

* Improved Management Oversight

and Planning

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Improved Management

Oversight & Planning

* Focus on Application of

Regulatory Products

* Planning, Budget, 'Program

Management

i Operating Plan - Management

Information Systems

* Developed Quality Metric

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Improved Management

Oversight & Planning

o Contract Management

- High-Level Review of

Statements of Work (SOWs)

- Explicit Focus on Regulatory

Need/impact

- Quality and Timeliness of

Contractor Deliverables/Reports

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Improved Management

Oversight & Planning

* Contract Management

- Contractor Availability

- Intensive review of NUREG/CR

reports

e Increased In-House Research

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Challenges & Responses

* Realism

* Expanded Information Sources

* New Technology

* Aa4mmn.. Em6..teg'm.amo

* Human Capital

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Summary

* Focusing Support to Agency

Mission

* Enhancing Agency Integration

* Implementing Plans to Strengthen

Human Capital and Knowledge

Management

i Continuing Significant Progress in

Improving Management

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