[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 203 (Thursday, October 19, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62769-62770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26884]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Twenty-Eighth Water Reactor Safety Meeting

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Twenty-Eighth Water Reactor Safety Meeting (WRSM) will be 
held on October 23-25, 2000, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the Bethesda Marriott 
Hotel, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland.
    Ashok C. Thadani, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 
will open the Water Reactor Safety Meeting on Monday, October 23, 2000, 
with NRC Chairman Richard Meserve, the keynote speaker.
    An expert panel recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Reactor 
Safety Study (WASH-1400) and a discussion of the lessons learned will 
follow Chairman Meserve. Panel members include George Apostolakis, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Adolf Birkhofer, Scientific 
Director, Gesellschaft fur Analagen-und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH; 
Robert Budnitz, Future Resources Associates; Richard Denning, Battelle 
Columbus Laboratories; B. John Garrick, Chairman, NRC Advisory 
Committee on Nuclear Waste; Harold Lewis, University of California 
Santa Barbara; and Ashok Thadani and Joseph Murphy, NRC.
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host a luncheon 
featuring guest speaker Dr. John F. Ahearne, former NRC Chairman, in 
celebration of the 25th anniversary of the release of the Reactor 
Safety Study and to honor Professor Norman Rasmussen and Saul Levine.
    Commissioner Nils J. Diaz will be a guest speaker in the afternoon 
followed by an expert panel addressing the future challenges for risk-
informed regulation. Panel members will include David Lochbaum, Union 
of Concerned Scientists; Dana Powers, Chairman, NRC Advisory Committee 
on Reactor Safeguards; Brian Sheron, Associate Director for Project 
Licensing and Technical Analysis, NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation; Margaret Federline, Deputy Director, NRC Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research. Dr. William Travers, NRC Executive Director for 
Operations, will serve as moderator for this panel. Technical sessions 
will be held for the remainder of the afternoon.
    Commissioner Greta J. Dicus will be a guest speaker at 8:30 a.m. on 
Tuesday, October 24, 2000, followed by three technical sessions that 
will last until noon. Elsevier Science, on behalf of the Journal of 
Nuclear Engineering Design, will host a luncheon to mark Professor Karl 
Kussmaul's role as Principal Editor. Dana Powers, Chairman, NRC 
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, will also be a guest speaker. 
Technical sessions will follow the luncheon and will be held for the 
remainder of the afternoon.
    On Wednesday, October 25, 2000, at 8:30 a.m., Commissioner Jeffrey 
S. Merrifield will be a guest speaker, followed by an expert panel to 
address the future role of nuclear power and the need for nuclear 
regulatory research. Panel members will include Joe Colvin, President 
and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute; Theodore 
Marston, Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, Electric Power 
Research Institute; Robert Budnitz, Future Resources Associates; David 
Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists; and Kenneth Mossman, Director, 
Office of Radiation Safety, Arizona State University. Commissioner 
Edward McGaffigan will moderate this panel.
    Two technical sessions and a rapporteur panel summarizing the 
discussions of the individual sessions will close out the meeting.
    This meeting is international in scope and includes presentations 
by personnel from the NRC, U.S. Government, DOE national laboratories, 
private contractors, universities, reactor vendors, and a number of 
foreign organizations.
    The preliminary agenda includes eight technical sessions, which 
will address risk-informed regulation; dry cask storage and 
transportation of spent nuclear fuel; high burnup fuel; PWR sump 
blockage and containment coatings service level 1 safety concerns; 
digital instrumentation and control; thermal hydraulic and severe 
accident analysis for reactors and spent fuel; integrity of the reactor 
coolant pressure boundary; reactor decommissioning; and regulatory 
effectiveness.
    Those who wish to attend are encouraged to register in advance on 
the WRSM website (www.wrsm.bnl.gov) or by contacting Susan Monteleone, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Energy, Building 
130, Upton, NY 11973, telephone (631) 344-7235; or Sandra Nesmith (301) 
415-6437, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of October 2000.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Clare Kasputys,
Deputy Director, Program Management, Policy Development & Analysis 
Staff, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 00-26884 Filed 10-18-00; 8:45 am]
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