NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS TO MEET 

SEPT. 9-11 IN ROCKVILLE, MD; FOUR REAPPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED 

 

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) 

will hold a public meeting Sept. 9-11 in Rockville, Md., to discuss several issues of interest. 

 Meeting topics include: potential approaches to resolve generic safety issue (GSI)-191 on 

assessment of debris accumulation on pressurized-water reactor sump performance; amendment to 

the design control document for the certified advanced boiling-water reactor (ABWR) design; longterm core cooling approach for the economic simplified boiling-water reactor (ESBWR) design; and 

the license application for the mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility under construction in 

Aiken, S.C. In addition, the Committee will hold discussions with representatives of the NRC staff 

regarding proposed staff guidance on assessing the consequences of an accidental release of 

radioactive materials from liquid waste tanks and assessing groundwater flow and transport of 

accidental radionuclide releases. 

 The meeting will be held in Room T2-B1 in the Two White Flint North building at NRC 

Headquarters at 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md. The sessions on Sept. 9 and 10 will run from 

8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Sept. 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

 Portions of the meeting may be closed to discuss information that includes classified, 

proprietary, or personnel matters. A complete agenda is available on the NRC’s website at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acrs/agenda/2010. 

 Anyone with questions or those wanting to make oral statements during the meeting should 

notify Cayetano Santos at (301) 415-7270. For video conferencing services, contact Theron Brown, 

at (301) 415-8066. 

The ACRS, a group of experienced technical experts, advises the Commission 

independently from the NRC staff on safety issues related to the licensing and operation of nuclear 

power plants. It also advises the Commission on issues in health physics and radiation protection. 

The Commission recently made four reappointments to the ACRS: Dana Powers to a fifth term and 

Sanjoy Banerjee, Said Abdel-Khalik and Michael L. Corradini to a second term. Terms are for four 

years. 

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No. 10-146 August 23, 2010
 Dana A. Powers is a senior scientist for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. 

He has served on the ACRS since 1994. The other three have served on the ACRS since 2006. 

Sanjoy Banerjee is a distinguished professor of chemical engineering and the director of the 

Institute for Sustainable Energy Technologies at the Grove School of Engineering at City College of 

New York, N.Y. Said Abdel-Khalik, current ACRS Chairman, is a Southern Nuclear Distinguished 

Professor at George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of 

Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Michael L. Corradini is a professor and chair for the Nuclear Engineering 

and Engineering Physics Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 

All of their biographies are available on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/regulatory/advisory/acrs/membership.html. 

The other members of the ACRS include: 

J. Sam Armijo, Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of 

Nevada, Reno, Nev. 

Dennis C. Bley, President, Buttonwood Consulting, Inc., Oakton, Va. 

Mario V. Bonaca, retired, Director of the Nuclear Engineering Department, Northeast Utilities, 

Hartford, Conn.. 

Charles H. Brown, Jr., Senior Advisor in Electrical Systems at BMT Syntek Technologies Inc., 

Arlington, Va. 

Harold Ray, retired, Chief Nuclear Officer at Southern California Edison, San Marino, Calif. 

Michael Ryan, Adjunct Faculty Member at Texas A&M University and Vanderbilt University, 

Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Health Physics, Lexington, S.C. 

William Shack, retired, Argonne National Laboratory, Downers Grove, Ill. 

John Sieber, retired, Duquesne Light Company, Wexford, Pa. 

John W. Stetkar, Principal, Stetkar and Associates, Lake Forest, Calif. 

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