NRC TO DISCUSS LONG-TERM FUKUSHIMA-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS

MAY 3, 7 AND 14 IN ROCKVILLE, MD

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a series of meetings with interested groups 

and members of the public May 3, 7 and 14, in Rockville, Md., to discuss the staff’s plans for 

resolving the long-term, or “Tier 3,” recommendations based on lessons learned from the March 

2011 accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. 

The May 3 meeting will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; the May 7 and 14 meetings will run from 

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. All the meetings will be held in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room at the NRC 

Headquarters complex, 11555 Rockville Pike in Rockville. Members of the public can also 

participate in the meetings via teleconference and webinar. Anyone interested in attending via 

phone or webinar should contact John Kauffman at 301-415-2005 or john.kauffman@nrc.gov for 

call-in or webinar log-in information.

The May 3 meeting will discuss the staff’s approach to a recommendation regarding fires 

and flooding caused by an earthquake. The meeting will also cover several recommendations 

regarding emergency preparedness and stakeholder suggestions to re-examine the NRC’s basis for 

emergency planning zones and the distribution of potassium iodide. 

The May 7 meeting will discuss a recommendation to periodically re-examine external 

hazards. The meeting will also discuss recommendations on NRC inspections and staff training, as 

well as a stakeholder suggestion on enhancing plant instrumentation.

The May 14 meeting will discuss recommendations regarding containment venting systems 

for a broad range of reactor designs and controlling the buildup of hydrogen after an accident. The 

meeting will also discuss a stakeholder suggestion to more rapidly transfer spent reactor fuel from 

pools to sealed storage casks.

Comments on any of the plans for Tier 3 recommendations can also be submitted via e-mail 

at JLD_Public.Resource@nrc.gov. The staff will consider public comments before submitting 

proposals for longer-term actions to the Commission this summer. The Commission will provide 

guidance to the staff regarding the proposals 

The Tier 3 recommendations are among those developed by the NRC’s Japan Near-Term 

Task Force, which issued its report in July 2011. The NRC prioritized those recommendations in 

December 2011. The staff has continued to expand the list as additional topics were raised during 

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the early implementation effort and as additional information becomes available. The agency has 

also established the Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate, a group of more than 20 

full-time employees to coordinate the agency’s efforts to implement lessons learned from the 

Fukushima Daiichi accident.

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