Transcript of the 629th ACRS Meeting, November 4-7, 2015

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Official Transcript of Proceedings
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title: In the Matter of:
629th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safeguards
Docket Number: N/A
Location: Rockville, Maryland
Date: November 5, 2015
Work Order No.: NRC-2011 Pages 1-165
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7 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION’S
8 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS
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13 Commission Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards,
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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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4 629TH MEETING
5 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS
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8 THURSDAY,
9 NOVEMBER 5, 2015
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11 ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
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13 The Advisory Committee met at the Nuclear
14 Regulatory Commission, Two White Flint North, Room
15 T2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, at 8:30 a.m., John W.
16 Stetkar, Chairman, presiding.
17 COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
18 JOHN W. STETKAR, Chairman
19 DENNIS C. BLEY, Vice Chairman
20 MICHAEL L. CORRADINI, Member-at-Large
21 RONALD G. BALLINGER, Member
22 CHARLES H. BROWN, JR. Member
23 DANA A. POWERS, Member
24 HAROLD B. RAY, Member
25 JOY L. REMPE, Member
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1 PETER RICCARDELLA, Member
2 STEPHEN P. SCHULTZ, Member
3 GORDON R. SKILLMAN, Member
4 DESIGNATED FEDERAL OFFICIALS:
5 GIRIJA SHUKLA
6 KATHY WEAVER
7 ALSO PRESENT:
8 JEREMY BOWEN, NRR/JLD/PPSD
9 GREGORY BOWMAN, NRR/JLD/PPSD/JPSB
10 DENNIS DAMON, NMSS/FCSE
11 EDWARD FULLER, RES/DSA
12 MICHAEL FRANOVICH, NRR/JLD
13 ACE HOFFMAN *
14 MARGARET A. KOTZALAS, NMSS/FCSE/PORB
15 STEVEN KRAFT, NEI
16 MARVIN LEWIS *
17 OMAR LOPEZ, R-II, DFFI, SB
18 KEVIN RAMSEY, NMSS/FCSE/FMB
19 WILLIAM RECKLEY, NRR/JLD/PPSD
20 EDWARD SIEGEL *
21 APRIL SMITH, NMSS/FCSE/PORB
22 RUSSELL SYDNOR, RES/DE/ICEEB
23 CHRIS TRIPP, NMSS/FCSE/PORB
24 MILTON VALENTIN, NRR/JLD/PPSD/JPSB
25 *Present via telephone
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1 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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3 Opening Remarks and Objectives:
4 John W. Stetkar, Chairman ................... 4
5 Fukushima Tier 2/3
6 Remarks by Subcommittee Chairman:
7 Stephen P. Schultz .................... 5
8 NRC Staff Discussion ........................ 8
9 NEI Comments/Discussion - Steven Kraft, NEI ....... 96
10 Public Comment ................................... 117
11 Lunch Recess ..................................... 118
12 Status of the Revised Fuel Cycle Oversight Process
13 (RFCOP) Cornerstones:
14 Remarks by Dana A. Powers.. . . . . . . . 119
15 NRC Staff Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . 121
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 8:32 a.m.
3 CHAIR STETKAR: The meeting will now come
4 to order. This is the second day of the 629th meeting
5 of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
6 During today's meeting, the Committee will
7 consider the following; Fukushima Tier 2 and Tier 3,
8 the status of the Revised Fuel Cycle Oversight
9 Process, Cornerstones and preparation of ACRS reports.
10 This meeting is being conducted in
11 accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory
12 Committee Act. Ms. Kathy Weaver is the Designated
13 Federal Official for the initial portion of the
14 meeting.
15 We have received no written comments or
16 requests to make oral statements from members of the
17 public regarding today's sessions.
18 There will be a phone bridge line. To
19 preclude interruption of the meeting, the phone will
20 be placed in listen-in mode during the presentations
21 and committee discussion.
22 For those of you on the bridge line, could
23 you please put your phones in mute mode so that we
24 don't have problems with crosstalk? It's an open line
25 and we've had some problems in the past.
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1 Also, I'd like to alert members of the
2 public who might be out there on the bridge line that
3 effective this Full Committee meeting, you can follow
4 us on the web and see video of our presentation slides
5 and hear audio. And for your reference, the link is
6 http://video.nrc.gov. And you'll see a link that you
7 can click on and follow our meetings that way.
8 And I've been told that the audio may be
9 better through that portal than it is through what you
10 can hear now.
11 A transcript of portions of this meeting
12 is being kept and it's requested that speakers use one
13 of the microphones, identify themselves and speak with
14 sufficient clarity and volume so that they can be
15 readily heard. And I'll remind everyone in the room
16 to check and silence all of your little communications
17 devices.
18 With that, do any of the members have any
19 items that you'd like to discuss?
20 (No audible response.)
21 CHAIR STETKAR: If not, the first item on
22 our agenda today is Fukushima Tier 2/Tier 3 actions.
23 And Steve Schultz will lead us through this session.
24 Steve.
25 MEMBER SCHULTZ: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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1 Good morning. The purpose of this morning's meeting
2 is for the Full Committee to review and discuss the
3 NRC staff's closure plans for the Open Tier 2 and Tier
4 3 Near-Term Task Force recommendations.
5 These plans are the subject of the NRC
6 staff paper SECY-15-0137, which was just sent to the
7 Commission last Thursday on October 29th and has been
8 made public just this morning.
9 The staff will discuss them in the
10 upcoming Commission meeting with the Commissioners on
11 November 17th.
12 We had the benefit of reviewing the
13 staff's closure plans during our October 6th, 2015
14 Fukushima Subcommittee meeting. This was the only
15 subcommittee we had on this topic.
16 Today we'll hear presentations by the NRC
17 staff and by representatives from the Nuclear Energy
18 Institute regarding their evaluations and conclusions
19 on these matters.
20 I will make a few remarks for the Full
21 Committee coming from the Subcommittee meeting. I
22 will note that the staff's initial and current
23 recommendations provided for each of the remaining
24 Tier 2 and Tier 3 recommendations are that the NRC's
25 existing regulatory framework and requirements are
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1 adequate and that no further regulatory action or
2 analysis is warranted.
3 I will also note that the recommendations
4 that are under discussion today are separated into
5 three groups.
6 A large number of the recommendations are
7 being proposed to the Commissioners' foreclosure at
8 this point in time. And those will be presented to
9 the Commissioners in the November meeting and are
10 discussed in that light in the SECY paper.
11 In two other groups, Groups 2 and Group 3
12 of the recommendations, the staff has indicated that
13 for the Group 2 recommendations additional
14 interactions with the ACRS and with members of the
15 public are warranted. And that interaction is
16 scheduled for early next year. And the staff intends
17 to communicate again with the Commission in March of
18 2016.
19 Group 3 is a category in which the staff
20 believes that other activities need to be completed by
21 the end of 2016. And, again, they will communicate
22 with the Commission on those items and we will be
23 working with the staff on those items through 2016.
24 There are also some recommendations that
25 have been transferred from the activities associated
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1 with this SECY paper to the rulemaking on mitigating
2 strategies.
3 I will note for the record that ACRS
4 member Joy Rempe has a conflict regarding discussions
5 related to some aspects of Enclosure 5 in the document
6 on reactor containment instrumentation enhancements
7 and will limit her participation accordingly.
8 We will now proceed with the staff
9 presentations. I'll first call upon Jeremy Bowen of
10 the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Japan
11 Lessons Learned Division to open the presentations
12 today.
13 Jeremy.
14 MR. BOWEN: Thanks, Steve. Good morning,
15 Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee. My name is
16 Jeremy Bowen. I'm the Associate Director in the Japan
17 Lessons Learned Division. We're happy to be with you
18 this morning and appreciate the opportunity to present
19 to the Committee.
20 As Steve mentioned, we were with you all
21 back in October to discuss our plans for the
22 disposition of the remaining Tier 2 and Tier 3
23 Fukushima action items.
24 This is an activity that we began in
25 midsummer of this year and have been working to
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