Appendix A
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
First Meeting
May 31 - June 1, 1989
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
Key Objectives: To review the task statement for the study; to hear presentations on DOE's current reactor development program and discuss relevant background material and perspectives; to identify the practical technological options and an appropriate proponent group for each; to develop evaluation criteria; and to determine future meeting dates and assignments.
Presentations:
Current DOE Reactor Development Program and Expectations for Study
Overview
Mary Ann Novak, Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Advanced Light Water Reactor
David McGoff, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Deployment
Liquid Metal Reactor
Jerry Griffith, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Systems Development and Technology
High Temperature Gas Reactor
Jerry Griffith, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Systems Development and Technology
Legislative Perspective and Expectations for Study
Ben Cooper, Senior Professional Staff
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Overview of Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Study: Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty
Alan Crane, Senior Associate
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
Overview of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Study: National Strategies for Nuclear Power Development, prepared under National Science Foundation grant
Richard Lester, Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Overview of U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Research Advisory Board Study: Review of the Proposed Strategic National Plan for Civilian Nuclear Reactor Development
John Landis, Sr. Vice President and Director
Stone & Webster
Dinner Speaker:
Llewellyn King, Publisher
The Energy Daily
Second Meeting
August 21-25, 1989
Beckman Center
Irvine, California
Key Objectives: To obtain information on the technological options from their proponents and to begin evaluating the technologies. This meeting was a Reactor Technologies Workshop at which the Committee members received presentations on various reactor technologies from U.S. and foreign speakers. Also during this meeting staff presented the results of interviews with various utility chief executive officers. Following the presentations, the Committee broke into focus groups for the evaluation.
Presentations:
EPRI Overview of Advanced LWRs and Comments on Other Advanced Technologies
John Taylor, Vice President for Nuclear Power
John DeVine, Program Manager, Advanced Light Water Reactor
Electric Power Research Institute
Comments on Types and Status of Reviews
Thomas Murley, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Combustion Engineering Advanced LWR Technology
Shelby Brewer, President, Nuclear Power Businesses
Combustion Engineering
General Electric Advanced LWR Technology
Bertram Wolfe, Vice President and General Manager
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Advanced LWR Technology
Howard Bruschi, Director of AP600 Program
Westinghouse
PIUS LWR Technology
Cnut Sundqvist, Reactor Division
Kåre Hannerz, PIUS Project
ABB Atom
Heavy Water Reactor Technology
D. R. Shiflett, Vice President and General Manager
AECL Technologies
Gas Cooled Reactor Technology
Linden Blue, Vice Chairman
General Atomics
John Jones, Director of Engineering Technology Division
Frank Homan, Director, Reactor Programs
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dan Mears, General Manager
Gas-Cooled Reactor Associates
Liquid Metal Reactor Technology
Bertram Wolfe Vice President and General Manager
Robert Berglund, Manager, Advance Nuclear Technology
General Electric
Charles Till, Associate Laboratory Director, Engineering Research
Yoon Chang, General Manager, IFR Program
Argonne National Laboratory
Discussion of Other Promising Technologies
Steven Hall
AEA Technology, United Kingdom
Third Meeting
October 19-20, 1989
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
Key Objectives: To achieve consensus on the evaluation of technologies; to review progress on the analysis of institutional issues and decide on next steps; to set in motion plans for Tasks 4 and 5 (Development Approaches and Facilities); to meet with Admiral Watkins; and to complete the bias discussions.
Presentations:
U.S. Department of Energy Contracts and Facilities
Jerry Griffith, Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Ray Hunter, Director, Office of Facilities, Fuel Cycle and Test Programs
U.S. Department of Energy
Dinner Speaker:
Admiral James Watkins, Secretary of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
Fourth Meeting
December 7-8, 1989
Beckman Center
Irvine, California
Key Objectives: To receive the focus groups' reports on Tasks 4 and 5 (Development Approaches and Facilities) and establish the Committee's position on these tasks; to focus the dialogue on the institutional issues and establish the Committee 's position on them; to clarify the issue on size (600 MWe versus 1000 MWe); to review a conceptual outline of the final report; to complete the evaluation of technologies (Task 3) by determining the Committee's views regarding development of the HTGR; to make assignments for the next meeting in January (Task 7: Policy Alternatives and Recommendations); and to receive a background briefing on global CO2 emissions.
Presentation:
Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming
George Hidy, Vice President
Electric Power Research Institute
Fifth Meeting
January 29-30, 1990
Beckman Center
Irvine, California
Key Objectives: To reach preliminary consensus on the answers to the main questions that must be addressed in the Committee's final report; to isolate those issues requiring more analysis; and to adopt a schedule for completion of the study.
U.S. Department of Energy Presentations on Actinide Recycle and Facility Requirements
Speakers:
Jerry Griffith, Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Sol Rosen, Director of Advanced Reactor Programs
Clifford Weber, Senior Technical Assistant
Department of Energy
Robert Berglund, Manager, Advance Nuclear Technology
General Electric
William Burch, Director, Fuel Recycle Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Yoon Chang, General Manager, IFR Program
Argonne National Laboratory
James Holmes, Manager, Development Department
Westinghouse Hanford Co.
Sixth Meeting
March 14-16, 1990
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
Key Objectives: To review the first draft of the Committee's final report and arrive at consensus about what the report should say so it can be redrafted for Committee approval.
Presentations:
Proliferation Panel:
Harold A. Feiveson, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Robert Williams, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Princeton University
Marvin Miller, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Jones, Director of Engineering Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
American Nuclear Energy Council:
Edward Davis, President
Dinner Speaker:
Kenneth Carr, Chairman
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Seventh Meeting
August 8-10, 1990
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
Key Objective: To reach closure on the Committee's final report so it can be sent to peer review.
Eighth Meeting
March 4-6, 1991
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, D.C.
Key Objective: To complete the final report so it can enter the Academy's peer review process.
