[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 194 (Thursday, October 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 59473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25560]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Experts' Meeting on High-Burnup Fuel Behavior Under Postulated 
Accident Conditions

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting to 
complete the Phenomena Identification and Ranking Tables (PIRTs) for 
three accidents. PIRTs have been used at NRC since 1988, and they 
provide a structured way to obtain a technical understanding that is 
needed to address certain issues. About twenty of the world's best 
technical experts are participating in this activity, and the experts 
represent a balance between industry, universities, foreign 
researchers, and regulatory organizations. The current PIRT activity is 
addressing high-burnup fuel behavior for a PWR control rod ejection 
accident, a BWR failure to scram accident with power oscillations, and 
a loss of coolant accident for a BWR and a PWR.

DATES: October 26-27, 2000, 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

ADDRESSES: Room T10A1 (TWFN) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted on the NRC 
Web site at www.nrc.gov/RES/meetings.htm by October 17, 2000. The 
meeting is open to the public. Attendees will need to obtain a visitor 
badge at the TWFN building lobby.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ralph Meyer, SMSAB, Division of 
Systems Analysis and Regulatory Effectiveness, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone (301) 415-
6789.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of September 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John H. Flack,
Acting Director, Division of Systems Analysis and Regulatory 
Effectiveness, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 00-25560 Filed 10-4-00; 8:45 am]
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