[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34791-34792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14271]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2014-0143]


NRC Endorsement of Trial Use PRA Standards and Criteria for 
Evaluating Multi-Module Risk

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) plans to hold a 
public meeting to discuss NRC options regarding endorsement of ASME/ANS 
PRA standards and the staff proposed criteria for evaluating multi-
module risk.

DATES: The public meeting will be held on June 26, 2014. See Section 
II, Public Meeting, of this document for more information on the 
meeting.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0143 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:

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     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0143. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document 
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time 
that a document is referenced.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Drouin, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-251-7574; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The ASME/ANS Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management (JCNRM) 
plans to publish three Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) standards 
for trial use at the end of this calendar year or the beginning of 
2015: (1) Low Power Shutdown PRA Standard, (2) Level 2 PRA Standard and 
(3) Advanced Light Water Reactor (ALWR) PRA standard. At a public 
meeting, the NRC seeks to discuss with interested stakeholders options 
for the NRC to endorse use of these standards.
    The NRC has been discussing multi-unit risk for many years with 
limited discussion on multi-module risk. The NRC staff plans to discuss 
their expectations for Multi-Module risk in a public meeting and in a 
white paper entitled ``Multi-Module Risk-NRC Expectations'' (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML14150A330). The paper will be issued and available to 
the public by June 20, 2014.

II. Public Meeting

    The public meeting will be held in Rockville, Maryland, at 21 
Church Street in Room CSB 06B1 on June 26, 2014, at 8:00 a.m.
    There will be two items on the agenda for the meeting. The first 
agenda item will be to discuss staff options for endorsement of the 
ASME/ANS standards to be issued for trial use and to solicit 
stakeholder input. The second agenda item will be discussion of the NRC 
white paper entitled ``Multi--Module Risk-NRC Expectations'' (ADAMS ML 
ML14150A330) which will be available to the public by June 20, 2014.
    The purpose of these agenda items is for the NRC staff to answer 
questions, to provide clarification regarding the white paper, and to 
solicit early stakeholder comments on both of these subjects. This 
meeting will be a Category 2 public meeting.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of June 2014.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard P. Correia,
Director, Division of Risk Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research.
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