[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52064-52065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22103]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


NUREG/CR-6595, Revision 1, An Approach for Estimating the 
Frequencies of Various Containment Failure Modes and Bypass Events, 
Draft Report for Comment

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Announcement of issuance for public comment, availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public 
comment a document entitled: NUREG/CR-6595 Revision 1, ``An Approach 
for Estimating the Frequencies of Various Containment Failure Modes and 
Bypass Events, Draft Report for Comment''.

DATES: Please submit comments by October 31, 2003. Comments received 
after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the 
NRC staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on 
or before this date.

ADDRESSES: NUREG/CR-6595 Revision 1, ``An Approach for Estimating the 
Frequencies of Various Containment Failure Modes and Bypass Events, 
Draft Report for Comment'' is available for inspection and copying for 
a fee at the NRC Public Document Room, Public File Area O1-F21, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. Publically available documents 
created or received at the NRC after November 1, 1999, are available 
electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, the public can gain 
entry into the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System 
(ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. 
The ADAMS Accession Number for NUREG/CR-6595, Revision 1 is 
ML032330225. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 
Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].
    A free single copy of NUREG/CR-6595 Revision 1, ``An Approach for 
Estimating the Frequencies of Various Containment Failure Modes and 
Bypass Events, Draft Report for Comment'', to the extent of supply, may 
be requested by writing to Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
Reproduction and Distribution Services Section, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Printing and Graphics Branch, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
facsimile: 301-415-2289; e-mail: [email protected].
    Please submit comments to Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. You may also deliver comments to 11545 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 
Federal workdays, or e-mail to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel O'Neal, Division of Risk 
Analysis and Applications, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone: 
301-415-4146, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG/CR-6595 Revision 1, ``An Approach for 
Estimating the Frequencies of Various Containment Failure Modes and 
Bypass Events, Draft Report for Comment'' incorporates updated 
information and expands on the NUREG/CR-6595 report, published in 
January 1999. The updated full power analyses take into account recent 
direct containment heating studies and information gathered from the 
Individual Plant Examination Level 2 studies. In addition, a new 
chapter provides event trees which reflect containment insights for 
shutdown conditions.


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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of August 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Scott F. Newberry,
Director, Division of Risk Analysis and Applications, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 03-22103 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]
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