NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS TO MEET 

NOV. 4-6 IN ROCKVILLE, MD; NEW MEMBER APPOINTED 

 

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 

(ACRS) will hold a public meeting Nov. 4-6 in Rockville, Md., to discuss several issues of 

interest. Meeting topics include: 

• Standard review plan for renewal of independent spent fuel storage installation 

licenses and dry cask storage system certificates of compliance 

• Draft final revision 2 of the Generic Aging Lessons Learned Report (NUREG1801) and standard review plan for review of license renewal applications for 

nuclear power plants (NUREG-1800) 

• Long-term reactor core cooling approach for the revised AP1000 design 

• Assessment of the quality of selected NRC research projects 

 

 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 Nov. 4 and 5 will 

run from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Nov. 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 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 Ilka Berrios at (301) 415-3179. For video conferencing services, contact Theron 

Brown, at (301) 415-8066. 

The Commission recently appointed Dr. Joy Rempe to the ACRS for a 4-year term. Dr. 

Rempe, a nuclear engineer with nearly 30 years of experience in reactor safety and high 

temperature testing, is currently a directorate fellow and group leader at the Idaho National 

Laboratory (INL) where she leads in-pile instrumentation development efforts for the INL’s 

advanced test reactor national scientific user facility. She serves as a member of several advisory 

groups reviewing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy Research and 

Development programs, and provides assistance to industry and regulators on severe accident 

issues. 

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Dr. Rempe has authored or co-authored 35 archival peer-reviewed journal publications 

and over 75 peer-reviewed conference papers on reactor safety, severe accident phenomena, high 

temperature testing, and in-pile instrumentation. She is an inventor/co-inventor on several 

patents/patents pending. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow in the American Nuclear Society 

(ANS); and in 2009, elected to the Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society. She has 

received awards from the NRC and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development 

for achievements in the Three Mile Island Unit -2 Vessel Investigation Project. 

Dr. Rempe holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of 

Missouri-Rolla and master’s degree and doctorate of philosophy in nuclear engineering from the 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

The other members of the ACRS include: 

• Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, (Chairman), Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor, George 

W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 

Atlanta, Ga. 

• Dr. Joseph S. Armijo (Vice-Chair), adjunct professor of Materials Science and 

Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno 

 

• Dr. Sanjoy Banerjee, professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California at 

Santa Barbara, Calif. 

• Dr. Dennis C. Bley, president of Buttonwood Consulting, Inc., and principal of The 

WrethWood Group, Oakton, Va. 

• Dr. Mario V. Bonaca, retired director, Nuclear Engineering Department, Northeast 

Utilities, Conn. 

• Dr. Michael Corradini, professor and chair of the Department of Engineering Physics, 

University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

• Dr. Dana Powers, senior scientist, Nuclear Facilities Safety Department, Sandia National 

Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M. 

• Dr. William J. Shack, retired associate director, energy Technology Division, Argonne 

national Laboratory, Argonne, Ill. 

• John Sieber, retired senior vice president, Nuclear Power Division, Duquesne Light Co, 

Pittsburgh, Pa. 

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

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