Appendix B
Presentations
WASHINGTON, DC, JANUARY 29, 2015
- Overview of spent fuel safety and security, including U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) actions in response to 2004 NAS report. Jennifer Uhle, Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Spent fuel pool safety studies and analyses. Steven Jones, Senior Reactor Systems Engineer, Balance of Plant Branch, Division of Safety Systems, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- USNRC implementation of lessons learned from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Eric Bowman, Special Advisor for Technical, Japan Lessons-Learned Division, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Security of spent fuel. Sandra Wastler, Branch Chief, Materials and Waste Security Branch, Division of Security Policy, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Safety of high-burnup spent fuel. Paul Clifford, Senior Technical Advisor for Reactor Fuel, Division of Safety Systems, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Safety and security of spent fuel storage in the United States. Edwin Lyman, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Actions taken by industry to improve spent fuel storage safety and security following the 2004 NAS report and the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Steven Kraft, Senor Technical Advisor, Nuclear Energy Institute; Phil Amway, Senior Staff Engineer, Severe Accident Management, Exelon
- Spent fuel and spent fuel storage facilities at Fukushima Daiichi. Kenji Tateiwa, Manager, Nuclear Power Programs, Washington, DC Office, Tokyo Electric Power Company
WASHINGTON, DC, MARCH 23, 2015
- Improvements to spent fuel pools at French nuclear power plants. Franck Bigot, Deputy Manager, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire; Laurent Gilloteau, Deputy Head of Department, Nuclear Safety Division, PWR Safety Assessment Department, Nuclear Safety Division, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire; Trégourès Nicolas, Scientific Officer of the DENOPI Project, Nuclear Safety Division, Safety Research, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire; Axelle Portier, Nuclear Safety Engineer, Nuclear Safety Division, PWR Safety Assessment Department, Periodic Safety Reviews Section, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
- French PWR spent fuel pool safety. Axelle Portier, Nuclear Safety Engineer, Nuclear Safety Division, PWR Safety Assessment Department, Periodic Safety Reviews Section, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
- Needs in research and development. Trégourès Nicolas, Scientific Officer of the DENOPI Project, Nuclear Safety Division, Safety Research, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
- Research and development: DENOPI project. Trégourès Nicolas, Scientific Officer of the DENOPI Project, Nuclear Safety Division, Safety Research, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
- Nuclear Energy Institute perspectives on: Role of equipment and procedures required under 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2) (formerly B5b) and how they differ from the FLEX equipment and procedures. Nick Pappas, Shift Manager, Arizona Public Service
- Nuclear Energy Institute perspectives on: Industry needs for 60 days to disperse spent fuel in pools after offloading from reactors; current industry practices (e.g., approaches and timing) for dispersing spent fuel in pools after offloading, including differences in practices at BWR and PWR plants. Kristopher Cummings, Senior Project Manager, Nuclear Energy Institute
- Nuclear Energy Institute perspectives on: Adequacy of security-related information sharing with industry by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (discussion). David Kline, Director, Security, Nuclear Energy Institute; Kristopher Cummings, Senior Project Manager, Nuclear Energy Institute
WASHINGTON, DC, MARCH 23, 20151
- Regulating spent fuel security: Introduction. Jennifer Uhle, Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Overview of spent fuel security requirements. Ralph Way, Senior Level Advisor for Security, Division of Security Operations, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Material control and accounting inspections. Glenn Tuttle, Material Control and Accountability Inspector, Material Control and Accountability Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Studies on terrorist attack scenarios: Structural analysis. Jose Pires, Senior Technical Advisor for Civil/Structural Engineering, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Studies on terrorist attack scenarios: Accident progression analysis. Donald Helton, Senior Reliability and Risk Engineer, Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- B.5.b and EA-12-049 (FLEX) strategies for spent fuel pools. Eric Bowman, Senior Advisor for Technical, Japan Lessons-Learned Division, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Overview of security requirements for dry cask storage. Susan Stuchell, Senior Security Specialist, Materials and Waste Security Branch, Division of Security Policy, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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1 These presentations were made in an information-gathering session not open to the public because they contained classified, Safeguards, and other security-restricted information that is exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act.
MAY 8, 2015
- Risk informing security. Christiana Lui, Division Director, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission