[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 19 (Thursday, January 29, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4950-4951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01708]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0206]
Verification and Validation of Selected Fire Models for Nuclear
Power Plant Applications
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-1824 (EPRI 3002002182),
``Verification and Validation of Selected Fire Models for Nuclear Power
Plant Applications, Supplement 1.''
DATES: Please submit comments by March 31, 2015. 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: You may submit comment by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0206. 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.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN, 06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and
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Submitting Comments'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this
document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Stroup, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7609, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0206 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0206.
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 (if it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
Draft NUREG-1824 (EPRI 3002002182), ``Verification and Validation of
Selected Fire Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications, Supplement
1'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14338A237.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2014-0206 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Further Information
In 2007, the NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research and the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under a joint Memorandum of
Understanding, together with the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, conducted a research project to verify and validate five
fire models that have been used for nuclear power plant applications.
The results of that effort were documented in a seven-volume report,
NUREG-1824 (EPRI 1011999), Verification & Validation of Selected Fire
Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications. Technical review of fire
models is necessary to ensure that analysts can judge the adequacy of
the scientific and technical basis for the models, select models
appropriate for a desired use, and understand the levels of confidence
that can be placed in the results predicted by the models. The work was
performed using state of the art fire dynamics calculation methods/
models and the most applicable fire test data. The NUREG-1824 (EPRI
3002002182), Verification & Validation of Selected Fire Models for
Nuclear Power Plant Applications, Supplement 1, expands on the previous
verification and validation effort and evaluates the latest versions of
the five fire models including additional test data for validation of
the models. As with the previous effort, the results are reported in
the form of ranges of accuracies for the fire model predictions and,
the project was performed in accordance with the guidelines that the
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) set forth in ASTM E
1355-12, Standard Guide for Evaluating the Predictive Capability of
Deterministic Fire Models (2012).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of January, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mark H. Salley,
Chief, Fire Research Branch Division of Risk Analysis, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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