[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 87 (Monday, May 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30402-30403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11137]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Pre-PIRT Meeting on Triso Coated Fuel Particles

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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    Purpose: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a pre-PIRT 
(Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table) meeting to identify 
Phenomena and issues related to TRISO coated fuel particles in order to 
develop research program. 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.

DATES: May 28-29, 2002 (9 a.m.-5 p.m. and 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 
respectively).

ADDRESSES: Rooms T-10C2 on May 28, 2002 and T-2C2 on May 29, 2002 of 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD.

Participants

    This is a technical workshop to be conducted as roundtable 
discussions and presentation of handouts between the NRC staff and NRC 
and DOE contractors. Agenda will be provided to invited participants 
before the meeting. All handouts will be published as part of a NUREG/
CR report. Invited NRC and DOE contractors are as follows:

Brent Boyack, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Syd Ball, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robert Morris, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David Petti, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Dana Powers, Sandia National Laboratory
Randy Gaunt, Sandia National Laboratory
NRC Staff

Public Attendance

    The meeting will be conducted as roundtable discussions between the 
invited participants and NRC staff.

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Although the focus of discussions will be among invited participants 
and NRC staff, the meeting is open to public. Members of the audience 
will be given opportunity to comment before the lunch breaks and at the 
end of the meetings each day. They may also submit written comments 
after the meeting. All written comments should be received within 15 
days of conclusion of the meeting. All written comments which are 
received within 15 days of the conclusion of the meeting will be 
published as part of the NUREG/CR report.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted on the NRC 
Web site at www.nrc.gov/RES/meetings.html by May 20, 2002. Attendees 
will need to obtain a visitor badge at the TWFN building lobby and an 
escort is required.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Frank Odar, SMSAB, Division of 
Systems Analysis and Regulatory Effectiveness, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone (301) 415-
6500.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of April 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Farouk Eltawila,
Director, Division of Systems Analysis and Regulatory Effectiveness, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 02-11137 Filed 5-3-02; 8:45 am]
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