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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 

Nuclear Safety Research Review Committee

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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    The Nuclear Safety Research Review Committee (NSRRC) will hold its 
next meeting on November 7-8, 1994. The location of the meeting will be 
Room T-2B3, Two White Flint North (TWFN) Building, 11545 Rockville 
Pike, Rockville, MD.
    The meeting will be held in accordance with the requirements of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and will be open to public 
attendance. The NSRRC provides advice to the Director of the Office of 
Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) on matters of overall management 
importance in the direction of the NRC's program of nuclear safety 
research. The main purpose of this meeting is to review plans for 
confirmatory research in support of certification review of the CANDU 3 
nuclear power plant design. Participants in the discussions will 
include representatives of the applicant (AECL Technologies Inc.) as 
well as NRC staff.
    The planned schedule is as follows:

Monday, November 7

8:30-8:45  Opening remarks by the NSRRC Chairman and by the Director 
of RES
8:45-2:45  Applicant's presentation of CANDU 3 design and supporting 
research. (Applicant) (Break 10:30-10:45; lunch break 12-1:15)
3-3:30  Presentation of technical issues identified by the NRC 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRC staff)
3:30-4:15  NRC's confirmatory research plan overview (NRC staff)
4:15-5:30  Issue-by-issue presentation and discussion of NRC 
research plans. (The issues tentatively scheduled for discussion 
during this period are thermal hydraulics, reactor physics, and fuel 
behavior.) (NRC staff)

Tuesday, November 8

8:30-10:45  Issue-by-issue presentation and discussion of NRC 
research plans, continued. (The issues tentatively scheduled for 
discussion during this period are severe accidents, source terms, 
materials and structures, instrumentation and control, and 
probabilistic risk assessment.) (NRC staff)
11-11:30  Recapitulation (Director, RES)
11:30-5  Committee discussion (including further questions for staff 
and applicant and deliberations toward formulation of advice). 
(NSRRC) (Lunch break 12:15-1:30; break 3-3:15)

    Members of the public may file written statements regarding any 
matter to be discussed at the meeting. Members of the public may also 
make requests to speak at the meeting, but permission to speak will be 
determined by the Committee chairperson in accordance with procedures 
established by the Committee. A verbatim transcription will be made of 
the NSRRC meeting and a copy of the transcript will be placed in the 
NRC's Public Document Room in Washington, DC.
    Any inquiries regarding this notice, any subsequent changes in the 
status and schedule of the meeting, the filing of written statements, 
requests to speak at the meeting, or for the transcript, may be made to 
the Designated Federal Officer, Mr. George Sege (telephone: 301/415-
6593), between 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23d day of September 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew L. Bates,
Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-24076 Filed 9-28-94; 8:45 am]
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