Federal Register, Volume 67 Issue 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2002)

[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63686-63687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26166]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 2002


Nuclear Safety Research Conference

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The 2002 Nuclear Safety Research Conference (NSRC), formerly 
known as the Water Reactor Safety Meeting, will be held October 28-30, 
2002, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel at Metro Center, 
775 12th Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    The NSRC is an international conference focused on regulatory 
issues, and it attracts researchers, regulators, and utility 
representatives from the United States and more than twenty other 
countries. The NSRC continues to be a leading forum in which 
participants interact with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
staff and colleagues and obtain research results and insights from 
research programs performed in support of the mission of the NRC.
    Ashok C. Thadani, Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research, will open the conference on Monday, October 28, 2002, at 8:30 
a.m., and NRC Executive Director for Operations, William D. Travers, 
will follow as the keynote speaker.
    An expert panel on advanced reactors will discuss the regulatory 
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needed to support the licensing of advanced reactor designs and focus 
on the kind of research needed to resolve technical and policy issues. 
Panel members will include NRC Commissioner Jeffrey S. Merrifield, 
Salomon Levy (Levy & Associates), Eugene Grecheck (Dominion Energy, 
Inc.), Andrew Kadak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), F. Peter 
Ford (NRC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards), and Tom Miller 
(U.S. Department of Energy).
    Technical sessions on advanced reactors and the degradation of 
reactor coolant boundary materials will be held in the afternoon.
    On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, NRC Chairman, Richard A. Meserve, 
will be the guest speaker at 8:30 a.m.; he will be followed by the 
first of two fuels sessions. An expert panel on formal decision methods 
and nuclear safety research will discuss research activities for 
developing the technical basis and enhancing the transparency and 
objectivity of decisionmaking in the regulatory environment. Panel 
members include James W. Johnson (NRC), Martin Virgilio (NRC), Theodore 
Marston (Electric Power Research Institute), Brian Sheron (NRC), and 
Robert Youngblood (ISL).
    Technical sessions on dry cask storage and transportation of spent 
nuclear fuels as well as fuels research will be held in the afternoon.
    On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, NRC Commissioner Greta J. Dicus 
will be the quest speaker at 8:30 a.m. An expert panel on risk-informed 
initiatives will communicate recent improvements in how NRC uses risk 
information in regulatory decisionmaking and how work in the NRC's 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research supports such uses. Panel members 
include George Apostolakis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 
Jukka Laaksonen (Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority 
(STUK)), Stephen Floyd (Nuclear Energy Institute), David Lochbaum 
(Union of Concerned Scientists), and Luis Reyes (NRC).
    Technical sessions on control of slightly contaminated materials 
and on probabilistic risk assessment will be held for the remainder of 
the day.
    This conference includes presentations by personnel from the U.S. 
Government, national laboratories, private contractors, universities, 
reactor vendors, and a number of foreign organizations.
    Those who wish to attend are encouraged to register in advance on 
the NSRC website (http://www.bnl.gov/NSRC) 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 2nd day of October, 2002.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Karen M. Fitch,
Deputy Director, Program Management, Policy Development & Analysis 
Staff, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 02-26166 Filed 10-11-02; 8:45 am]
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