[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 13798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6197]


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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 
further develop a Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) for 
a BWR accident. 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 a postulated BWR accident wherein power oscillations occur, 
the reactor fails to scram, and the oscillations then reach sufficient 
magnitude that fuel failure may occur before the emergency operating 
procedures are able to terminate the oscillations and shut the reactor 
down.

DATES: April 4-7, 2000, 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

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

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted on the NRC 
Web site at www.nrc.gov/RES/meetings.html by March 20, 2000. The 
meeting is open to the public. Attendees will need to obtain a visitor 
badge at the TWFN building lobby.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of March 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Charles E. Rossi,
Director, Division of Systems Analysis and Regulatory Effectiveness, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 00-6197 Filed 3-13-00; 8:45 am]
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