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Appendix B: Planned FY 1986 Safety Research Program of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Appendix B: Planned FY 1986 Safety Research Program of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Appendix B Planned FY 1986 Safety Research Program of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 91
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However, as new seismological data are obtained throughout the U.S., the appropriateness of plant design earthquake levels have been questioned. There is concern over the ability of current light water reactor plant designs to accommodate earthquakes larger than the design basis and to adequately protect the public health and safety.
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5. TITLE: VALIDATION, PLANNING & COORD FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Argonne National Lab BUDGET 365 625 900 OBJECTIVE; Nuclear power plants are designed to resist large earthquakes.
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TITLE: BENCHMARKING COMPUTER CODES FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 FOR STRUG ENGR. BUDGET 300 200 208 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Nuclear power plants are designed to resist large earthquakes.
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I0. TITLE: DAMPING STUDIES FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 230 200 0 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: NRC dynamic load design criteria have led to the placement of large numbers of snubbers and rigid supports on nuclear plant piping.
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However, as new data are obtained on earthquake activity throughout the U.S., plant design earthquake levels have increased. There is concern over the ability of current light water reactor plant designs to accommodate these larger earthquakes and to adequately protect the public health and safety.
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16. TITLE: MECHANICAL EQ QUAL PROGRAM FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET ll86 2000 1800 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: The NRC requires that nuclear power plant equipment important to safety be qualified to assure operability during design basis accident conditions.
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18. TITLE: ASME SECTION III FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Oak Ridge BUDGET 104 150 200 National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Assist the NRC staff in a thorough evaluation of proposed revision and/or additions to the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (ASME Code)
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22. TITLE: CONT INTEGRITY UNDER EXTREME FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 LOAD BUDGET 740 600 700 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Severe accidents exceeding the original design basis that lead to core melt have been postulated.
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24. TITLE: ICEDF CODE VERIF/VALID TESTS FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Labs BUDGET 179 450 0 OBJECTIVE: In evaluating potential releases of radioactivity from containment atmospheres to the environment as a result of severe light water reactor accidents, the effectiveness of certain Engineered Safety Features for removal of radioactive particulates is an important factor.
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28. TITLE: RESIDENT ENGINEER - FRG FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Oak Ridge National Lab BUDGET 120 130 130 OBJECTIVES: Act as a resident engineer in Stuttgart, Germany, for the Division of Engineering Technology, Materials Engineering Branch, for liason to the materials, structural and safety programs underway at MPA and elsewhere.
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Assoc., Inc. OBJECTIVES: To provide to the NRC analytical and experimental methods and data that are necessary for compliance with 10CFR50 Appendix A, GDC-14, 30 and 31, to ensure the structural safety and reliability of pressure boundary components in light water reactor components of U.S.
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34. TITLE: HYDROGEN CONTROL FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Lab BUDGET 780 400 0 OBJECTIVE: An igniter system is employed in a reactor containment to control the combustion of hydrogen that may result from certain possible accidents.
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38. TITLE: STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF PWR FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 STEAM GENERATOR TUBING BUDGET 30 30 0 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Develop data and models to be used by the regulatory staff to predict the stress corrosion cracking (SCO service life if Inconel 600 steam generator tubing under normal and upset conditions and establish criteria for safe operation of such steam generators.
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TITLE: INTL PIPING INTEG RESEARCH FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 GP (IPIRG) BUDGET 0 650 500 CONTRACTOR: Battelle Columbus Labs OBJECTIVE: To develop, improve and verify engineering methods for assessing the integrity of nuclear power plant piping containing defects, and to develop the technology to justify plant life extension and simplifications in nuclear plant piping design criteria.
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45. TITLE: ACOUSTIC EMMISSION MATERIAL STUDY FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Lab BUDGET 600 200 200 OBJECTIVE: To validate that acoustic emmission technology can be used as a continuous monitor to provide assurance that cracks, have neither initialized nor are growing and thus that the pressure boundary is not endangered and remains in compliance with 10CFR50, Appendix A, General Design Criteria 30, 31 and 32.
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47. TITLE: REAL TIME SAFT-UT FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Labs BUDGET 600 300 300 OBJECTIVE: To reduce the uncertainty in safety evaluations by improving the detection reliability and sizing accuracy of flaws in light water reactor nuclear components, to assure that component failures and corresponding loss of coolant accidents cannot occur because a severe flaw was missed during inspection or because a large flaw was allowed to remain in service since it was improperly thought to be of much smaller size.
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50. TITLE: DECONTAMINATION METHODS - EFF FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 AND SAFETY BUDGET 100 0 400 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: The increased utilization of in situ decontamination of primary coolant systems and associated equipment has raised questions within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as to the effectiveness of the decontaminations in reducing occupational exposure.
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54. TITLE: FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National BUDGET 800 650 500 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Probabilistic risk assessments (PRA)
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58. TITLE: TESTING EQUIPMENT - SEVERE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 ACCIDENT SEQUENCES BUDGET 50 150 400 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Confirm the adequacy of data obtained from plant instrumentation and the availability of electrical equipment under severe accident states which provide the basis for operational and emergency preparedness actions; provide more accurate data for deterministic and probabilistic calculations as they pertain to severe accident states.
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60. TITLE: OPER AVAIL OF INSTRUMENTS FOR FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 SEVERE ACCIDENTS BUDGET 300 150 300 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National Engineering Lab OBJECTIVE: Confirm the adequacy of data obtained from plant instrumentation and the availability of electrical equipment under severe accident states which provide the basis for operational and emergency preparedness actions; provide more accurate data for deterministic and probabilistic calculations as they pertain to severe accident states.
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64. TITLE: 3D INSTRU SUPPORT FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 750 500 451 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To provide technical support and instrumentation services for several facilities of the 2D/3D program in Germany and Japan.
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69. TITLE: TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO JAERI FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 220 0 400 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To obtain data from large scale integral thermal hydraulic test facilities.
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72. TITLE: SEMISCALE PROGRAM FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 4581 3146 5M Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: As needed to resolve NRC concerns with plant safety and with licensing concerns in Westinghouse and Combusion Engineering plant designs, perform integral systems transient and loss of coolant accident tests and evaluate the data generated from these tests.
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76. TITLE: MODELING OF TWO-PHASE FLOW FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Argonne National Lab BUDGET 310 240 300 OBJECTIVE: To develop two-phase flow models and correlations to support accurate LWR safety analyses and to assess scaling compromises in experimental facilities.
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83. TITLE: CODE ASSESSMENT & APPL FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 435 0 300 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: The objectives are 1)
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86. TITLE: THERMAL REACTOR SAFETY CODE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 DEVELOPMENT BUDGET 50 50 100 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: The objective is to provide NRR with a system transient Boiling Water Reactor thermal & hydraulic analysis code (RAMONA III B)
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89. TITLE: RELAP 5 FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 150 0 200 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To provide NRR the capability to accurately calculate a wide variety to PWR transients for use in auditing vendor calculations of ECCS behavior under Loss-of-Coolant-Accident conditions defined 10 CFR 50.46 Appendix K, and reviewing operator procedures.
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ACCIDENT EVALUATION DECISION UNIT 95. TITLE: SEVERE ACCIDENT SEQUENCE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 ANALYSIS-PWRS BUDGET 825 600 600 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Apply deterministic analyses to risk dominant accident sequences for specific plants utilizing best estimate values.
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97. TITLE: SEVERE ACCIDENT SEQUENCE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 ANALYSIS-PWRS BUDGET 825 800 65» CONTRACTOR: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Perform realistic analyses for risk dominant accident sequences for specific plants utilizing best-estimate values in deterministic analysis codes.
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Assure that methodology developed primarily for PWR analysis includes adequate modification of BWR plant studies. 101 TITLE: FP TRANSPORT IN BWR SEVERE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 ACCIDENTS BUDGET 0 180 0 CONTRACTOR: Oak Ridge National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Apply deterministic analyses to risk dominant accident sequences for specific plants utilizing best estimate values for fission product tracking.
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These are to be addressed by a program of separate-effect experiments, out-of-pile in the laboratory and in existing test facilities, and in-pile in ACRR. 105 TITLE: TMI FUEL EXAM FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Argonne National BUDGET 200 300 300 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: By examination of the TMI-2 core debris, to provide benchmark data for the assessment of severe accident codes and for augmentation of results of the Severe Fuel Damage and Source Term research program.
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ll0 TITLE: SEVERE FUEL DAMAGE MODEL DEV FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 780 770 650 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: 1. Develop and validate a best-estimate computer code (SCDAP)
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ll2 TITLE: SEVERE CORE DAMAGE MATERIALS FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 PROP TEST BUDGET 290 300 200 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Laboratories OBJECTIVE: To obtain high temperature data on core material behavior for use in severe core damage fuel behavior irradiation tests, for safety analysis codes, and for analysis of the severe fuel damage research program results. Uncertainties in reactor core materials properties under severe accident conditions affect fission product release analyses in two ways.
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118 TITLE: QUANT UNCERTAIN OF FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTAINMENT LOADING BUDGET 0 200 0 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Evaluate uncertainties in quantitative predications of loading on reactor containments for selected severe accident sequences at specific plants.
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121 TITLE: THERMAL HYDRAULIC EXP FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National BUDGET 750 450 800 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Perform experiments, together with corresponding model development, to improve understanding of thermal-hydraulic phenomena involved in severe accident high-temperature core debris behavior. 122 TITLE: THERMAL HYDRAULICS-CORE/ FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONCRETE INTERACTIONS BUDGET 0 290 0 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Conduct experiments together with analysis and model development on the thermo-dynamic phenomena that govern the interactions between reactor core debris and concrete as well as evolution of aerosols and fission products from debris pool.
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126 TITLE: HIGH TEMP FISSION PROD CHEK FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National BUDGET 450 400 400 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To provide data for development of fission product transport models to enable best-estimate consequence calculations for the retention of fission products in the reactor coolant system in a severe accident. Specifically, to investigate, following release from the fuel, the high temperature chemistry of fission products in the vapor phase and the chemical interaction of fission products with structural surface materials and airborne aerosols.
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129 TITLE: POST TEST FUEL EXAM FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Argonne National BUDGET 150 150 0 Laboratories OBJECTIVE: To provide information on fission product release mechanisms for use in developing detailed models of fission product release from fuel in severe core melt accidents by conducting post-test examinations of the commercially irradiated fuel rods specimens subjected to high temperature fission product release testing at ORNL. 130 TITLE: UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 SOURCE TERM BUDGET 83 800 600 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: (1)
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133 TITLE: FP RELEASE AT SEVERE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 ACCIDENT CONDITIONS BUDGET 1460 1300 850 CONTRACTOR: Oak Ridge National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To provide an experimental data base for developing fission product release models to enable best-estimate source term calculations in the fission product release area in severe accidents. Specifically, to investigate experimentally uncertainties in the magnitude and physiochemical form of fission products released and control rod failure behavior under the elevated temperature and environmental conditions characteristic of severe fuel damage and core melt accidents.
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137 TITLE: NRU COOLANT BOILAWAY & FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 DAMAGE PROGRESSION TESTS BUDGET 1992 2800 2700 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Laboratories OBJECTIVE: To obtain data for full-length coolant boildown tests in NRU on in-reactor fission product release and transport, hydrogen release, and fuel relocation for computer code verification, for implementation of the NRC Severe Accident Policy Statement, for emergency planning, and for establishing siting policy. 138 TITLE: SUPPORT SERVICES FOR SEVERE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 ACCIDENT ANALYSIS BUDGET 1902 ll40 0 CONTRACTOR: Battelle Columbus Laboratories OBJECTIVE: Provide a source of expertise and analysis capability which can be called upon by RES to perform research and evaluation of severe accident phenomena.
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The objective of this project is to assess and develop a quantification technique that will be used for calculating system reliability characteristics when the rare event approximation does not hold, to investigate extensions of the fault graph method, and to investigate and refine cut set generation algorithms. 141 TITLE: INTEGRATED DEPENDENT FAILURE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 METHODOLOGY BUDGET 275 285 250 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Existing PRA methods and procedures lack internal consistency, are incomplete in terms of their treatment of common-cause failures (e.g., external events, human reliability)
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143 TITLE: INTEGRATED PRA SOFTWARE DEV FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 200 200 I0B Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: The objective of the program is to provide computer tools for systematically performing reliability and risk studies and assessing the uncertainties in them. This will help provide a more uniform and consistent treatment of uncertainties in regulatory and reliability analyses.
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145 TITLE: BRA RESULTS UTILIZATION FOR FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 DSI/GSI RESOLUTION BUDGET 330 205 250 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Lab OBJECTIVE: Existing probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methods and procedures lack internal consistency, are incomplete in terms of their treatment of common cause failure (e.g., external events, human reliability)
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147 TITLE: HUMAN RELIABILITY DATA BOOK FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 0 250 200 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Existing probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methods and procedures lack internal consistency, are incomplete in terms of their treatment of common cause failure (e.g., external events, human reliability)
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and, as a result, produce results with large uncertainties. These inadequacies have severely limited the usefulness of PRAs in guiding and supporting a broad range of Commission decisions and actions, e.g., in the areas of safety issue isolation, backfitting, implementation of safety goals and severe accident policies.
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155 TITLE: PROCEDURE FOR EVALUATING TECH FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 SPECS (PETS) BUDGET 500 800 700 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Develop and demonstrate methodologies to utilize reliability and risk techniques in evaluating the scope, detailed requirements, and safety impact of plant technical specifications.
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159 TITLE: ACCIDENT SEQUENCE EVALUATION FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 (PREV B6742) BUDGET 1670 1200 700 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Provide updated LWR accident sequence information for the NRC reference plants and extend the information for all operating and near-term operating plants to support NRC/IDCOR interface on severe accident technical issues, preparation of NUREG ll50, implementation of Severe Accident Policy Statement, NRC source term reassessment, and other safety and regulatory issues.
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catalog the dominant accident sequence information from existing PRAs into a single reference document. 161 TITLE: REACTOR VITAL EQUIP FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 DETERMINATION TECHNIQUES BUDGET 250 450 0 CONTRACTOR: Los Alamos National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To provide increased assurance that the reactor vital equipment assumptions and procedures used the NRC as a technical basis for safeguards reactor licensing decisions reflect current knowledge in the area of reactor safety and sabotage vulnerability.
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165 TITLE: PROTECTIVE ACTION DECISIOMAKING FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Brookhaven National BUDGET 250 350 100 Laboratorty OBJECTIVE: To develop a revised protective action strategy for accidents at nuclear power plants based on results of new source term research. 166 TITLE: EVALUATION OF PROT ACTION RISKS FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Pennst BUDGET 120 50 200 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this contract is, under radiological accident conditions, to determine how the non-radiological risks of evacuation compare with the radiological risks if no protective actions are taken.
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The latter is a major objective of the MELCOR program, which this FIN supports, in part. 170 TITLE: MELCORE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National BUDGET 1250 1450 500 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: NRC is faced in the near term with determining how considerations of severe reactor accidents should be incorporated into the regulatory process and, further, on determining how the results of source term research should influence current regulatory requirements.
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so that the methodology will be applicable to analyzing HLW isolation in basalt, tuff, domed salt, and granite. 175 TITLE: COMPUTER CALCULATIONS IN SUPPORT FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 OF THE BYDROCOIN STUDY BUDGET 75 100 100 CONTRACTOR: Sandia National Laboratory OBJECTIVE: To provide technical support for NRC participation in HYDROCOIN (an international cooperative investigation)
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142 177 TITLE: VALENCE EFFECTS ON ADSORPTION FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Oak Ridge National BUDGET 150 150 150 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Several of the most hazardous radionuclides in high-level waste can exist in multiple valence (a.k.a. oxidation)
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182 TITLE: UNSAT FLOW t TRANS THRU FACT ROCK FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 PHASE II BUDGET 220 0 200 CONTRACTOR: University of Arizona OBJECTIVE: Assessment of techniques for modeling and data gathering and for describing unsaturated flow and transport in fractured rock. This study will provide the NRC licensing staff with an understanding and technical information for evaluating DOE's site characterization plans and studies on long-term predication of water (liquid/vapor movement)
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188 TITLE: CHAR OF LL RAD DECON WASTE FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Idaho National BUDGET 100 100 100 Engineering Laboratory OBJECTIVE: The characteristics of LLW waste from the decontamination of reactor systems must be known in order to establish site performance by modeling the migration of radionuclides for LLW disposal sites. This project will provide reachability data by studying actual wastes from LWR decontamination.
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191 TITLE: SOIL-BIOTICH-HYDRO PROCESSESG FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Lab BUDGET 95 100 0 OBJECTIVE: Chemicals from plant roots have been observed to affect the mobility of radionuclides in soils. This work will produce an integrated understanding of soil-plant-hydrologic processes governing the mobility and biological availability of radionuclides from LLW disposal facilities.
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This project is providing basic seismological data recorded on Kentucky. This data includes earthquake locations, magnitudes, source parameter, phase arrival time,etc.
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This project is providing basic seismological data recorded near the southern end of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This data includes earthquake locations, magnitudes, source parameter, phase arrival time, etc.
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Under this project, and evaluation of several hypotheses on the cause of seisraicity in the Southeastern uncertainty in seismic hazard assessment of NPP's. 204 TITLE: CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE PROJ FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Law Engineering BUDGET 317 250 200 OBJECTIVE: The tectonic cause of seismicity in the Eastern United States is not well understood.
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This project is providing basic seismological data recorded in the vicinity of the US/Canada border. This data includes earthquake locations, magnitudes, source parameter, phase arrival time.
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212 TITLE: PIEDMONT SEISMIC REFLECTION FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Virginia Polytech BUDGET 230 250 200 Institute OBJECTIVE: The tectonic cause of seismicity in the Eastern United States is not well understood. Additional data is needed to assist the NRC in conducting regulatory reviews and establishing appropriate regulations and policies.
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This project is providing basic seismological data recorded in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. This data includes earthquake locations, magnitudes, source parameter, phase arrival time, etc.
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This project is providing basic seismological data recorded on Long Island. This data includes earthquake locations, magnitudes, source parameter, phase arrival time, etc.
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This grant to the National Academy of Sciences is to partially offset the cost of gathering these expert panels together and of publishing their findings in special reports. 224 TITLE: ACUTE MORBIDITY & MORTALITY FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 IN ANIMALS BUDGET 260 250 0 CONTRACTOR; Inhalation Toxicology OBJECTIVE: To develop information that will improve the estimates of potential early health effects of postulated accidents and sabotage in nuclear power plants, fuel cycle facilities, and transportation.
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229 TITLE: LUNG CANCER IN WOMEN - RADON FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Argonne National BUDGET 0 16 0 Laboratory OBJECTIVE: Determine whether the Lung Cancer risk observed in exposed women is, after adjustment for smoking habits of the study population, consistent with lung cancer risks observed in radon exposed miner populations. Present risk estimates for radon are based entirely on miner populations.
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155 231 TITLE: EARLY EFFECTS OF INHALED FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 EADIONUCLIDES IN ANIMALS BUDGET 280 200 0 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest Laboratories OBJECTIVE: To develop information that will improve the estimates of potential early health effects of postulated accidents and sabotage in nuclear power plants, fuel cycle facilities and transportation. The specific objective is to provide experimental data necessary to verify the early mortality model and to develop models for morbidity and •ortality expected to occur within 18 months after exposure to radionuclides.
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Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) monitors major research and development projects being performed by DOE, NIH, and others, and extracts important findings for inclusion into the highly advanced ORNL data banks and computer programs.
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157 239 TITLE: TESTING EXTREMITY DOSIMETRY STANDARDS FY 85 FY 86 FY 87 CONTRACTOR: Pacific Northwest BUDGET 0 100 0 Laboratories OBJECTIVE: NRC inspectors regularly observe inadequate dosimetry for monitoring the heads and extremities of workers who perform tasks in non-uniform radiation fields. In order to improve this situation the NRC staff plans to recommend that licensees be required to use only extremity dosimeters and processors that have passed performance tests as defined in an ANSI standard being developed by the Health Physics Society.
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