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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FOIA RESPONSE NUMBER (03-2017)

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!Julian Tarver DESCRIPTION OF REQUESTED RECORDS:

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SECY 93-273, COMS-93-006-FJR (10/8/1993)

PART I. -- INFORMATION RELEASED You have the right to seek assistance from the NRC's FOIA Public Liaison. Contact information for the NRC's FOIA Public Liaison is available at btt12s*//www me ggv/[eadiog-rmLfgia/QQntact-foia.html Agency records subject to the request are already available on the Public NRC Website, in Public ADAMS or on microfiche in the D NRC Public Document Room.

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PART I.B -- INFORMATION NOT LOCATED OR WITHHELD FROM DISCLOSURE D We did not locate any agency records responsive to your request. Note: Agencies may treat three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records as not subject to the FOIA ("exclusions"). 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This is a standard notification given to all requesters; it should not be taken to mean that any excluded records do, or do not, exist.

D We have withheld certain information pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described, and for the reasons stated, in Part II.

Because this is an interim response to your request, you may not appeal at this time. We will notify you of your right to D appeal any of the responses we have issued in response to your request when we issue our final determination.

You may appeal this final determination within 90 calendar days of the date of this response by sending a letter or e-mail to the FOIA Officer, at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, or FOIA.Resource@nrc.gov. Please be D sure to include on your letter or email that it is a "FOIA Appeal." You have the right to seek dispute resolution services from the NRC's Public Liaison, or the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS). Contact information for OGIS is available at htt12s://ogis.archives.gov/about-ogis/contact-information.htm PART I.C COMMENTS ( Use attached Comments continuation page if required)

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The Commission reviewed the requested records, the information is provided to you in entirety.

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October 4. 1993 POLICY ISSUE SECY-.2}._-273 (NEGATIVE CONSENT)

FOR: The Commissioners rnor.: James M. Taylor, Executive Director for Operations SUBJrCT: CotH WUATIOH OF TUE .. ,wcLEAR SAHTV 11 JOURf4AL PURPO~E:

lo Inform the Commtssion of the staff's tntent to continue the Uuclear Safety journal by providtng full funding. DO[ fundtng ts discontinued. Thfs publtcatlon had been jointly funded previously DISCUSS IOtl:

The Journal ttuclear Safety ts a technical progress and review journal that covers stgntftcant developments tn the field of nuclear safety. The material ts put together at Oak Ridge Uattonal Laboratory, the product ton functtons (composition. page make-up, reference checks, prtnttng) are performed by the DOE Office of Sctenliftc and Technical lnformatton~ sale and distrtbution are by the Government Prtnttng Office. The journal ts tn the 34th year of publication. Since 1986 1t has been published quarterly; most of the lime before that. every two months. During its first 25 years the journal was prtmartly c~ncerned with broad reviews of the state of the art tn various safety-related areas. In recent years, it has, tn addttton to review papers, accepted papers describing new work, including papers from abroad judged to be or interest to the U.S. nuclear safety convnunity, as well as reporting on general topics thought to be of interest.

Huc1car Safely functions as an independent technical journal that seeks to maintain high professional quality in 1ls contents. relying to that end extensively on 1nd~pendent expert peer reviews of submitted papers.

corHACT: NOTE: EXCEPT FOR APPENDIX A, TO BE H.~DE PUBLICLY G, Sege, RtS AVAILABLE WHEH THE FINAL SRM 1S AVAILABLE.

492-3904 APPEttDIX A IS 10 BE WITHHELD.

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The Commissioners 2 The number of copies printed ts currently J.JJS. Approximately one-half of these are sold through the Government Printing Office at a subscrfptton price of SZO per year. The rest are distributed free, BOO to the Depository Lfbrarte$ and 795 to a Government distribution list (tr,cludfng NRC).

The Journal's [dtlor-in-Chfef 1s Ernest G. Silver, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Or. Silver succeeded Wtlltam Cottrell, the founding edftor, tn 1984, when Hr Cottrell retired.

In Appendix B Dr. Silver provtde5 additional descriptive detail about the journal and 1ts processes. Appendtx C is a reproduction of the tables of contents of the four 1992 issues. A copy of ~uclear Safety (Oct.-Oec. 1992) ts enclosed for Information.

Recent Funding In FY 91 and 92 ~undtng was S361K and 366K. The FY 93 funding was S334K.

These funding levels, especially for FY 93, were Insufficient for four Issues a year. Publ1catton dales slipped. It fs e~ttmated that four full tssues would have cost about S380K to 400K (1n 1993 dollars).

fhe matn source of funding has been DOE. NRC's contrfbutton was about one-quarter of the total.

lhe editorial work takes up about 701 of the cost; the remaining 30% or so ts for production (composition, page make-up, reference checks, printing),

(These costs do not include the GPO dtstrtbutton costs or recoverte~ through subscrtptton sales.)

A more detailed recP.nt cost history t~ presented fn Appendix D i .

Stat.us DOE funding of Huclcar Safet_y 1s being discontinued as of the end of September 1993. This move reflects the Department's reduction of Its Nuclear Energy program. lhe consequence ts that continued publication of the journal depends on URC taking on the full funding.

Recent tssues of the Journal are behind schedule, partly as a result of funding oroblems. (The July-September 1992 issue came out fn April 1993; the October-December 1992 tssue, 1n July 1993. The first 1993 issue fs expected to be ready for distribution 1n October 1993.)

Just t ftcatton fnr Continuing Publ tcation Nuclear Safet1 ts the only profes~fonal journal tn the U.S. dedicated to the subject of nuclear safety, though many articles on toptcs related to nuclear safety appear !n a variety of other refereed professional journals. Through 1ts specialized concentration on nuclear safely topics and focus on both broad progress reviews and important new work, 1t can provide an efficient vehicle

The Co1M1fssioners 3 for disseminating to th~ nuclear co11111untty information of a high quality on nucleilr safety -- and especially on nuclear safety research. Assembl) of thfs information fn one periodical he1ps create context and perspective for the various aspech of the field. Beneficiaries of this information include the NRC and tts contractors. the nuclear Industry, DOE and its contractors, various segments ot the publ lc and the academic community with an interest in nuclear safety developments. and the International nuclear safety conununity.

The journal can be a helpful adjunct lo other means of dissemination of nuclear safety research information. whether of NRC-sponsored origin or from elsewhere. and could contribute to accomplishment of the NRC's safety objecuves.

Of particular Interest lo the NRC 1s the benefit that continuing publication of tluclear Safety could provide to tlRC licensees in exercising initiative in ensuring safety In their plants beyond mfnimal compliance wfth NRC regulatory requirements Ready access to up-to-date nuclear safety information, Including new developments, 1s import~l for thfs purpose. The NRC should not forgo tht s benefit by a11owtng Nuclear Safeh to cease publ icatton.

The Journal serves tnternattonal as welt as national objectives, U.S results are dtsscmtnaled abroad white articles rrom foreign contributors inform U.S.

readnrs about devP.lopments in other countries. The journal's continued pub11catton by the U.S. nuclear safety regulatory agency ts appropriate to the United States' postlton as the country with the largest nuclear establishment and as world leader in nuclear safety research.

Plans The staff plans lo make arrangements wflh DOC, with Oak Ridge Nat tonal Laboratory, and with the Government Prtnting Office, lo continue publtcatfon of Hucll!ar Safety under NRC funding, for a two-year trial perfod. During this period we plan to develop and make ildjuslmenh in scope and format in recogntt ton of tlRC miss Ion need!>>, evaluate the Journal* s usefulness and cost, and draw conclusions as to the mel'lts of continuing publication beyond the trl a1 pert od. If the bencf I ls are as assumed and the costs as expected I we would expect to c.onttnue publlcation, budget permitting. We wfll also cons Ider f ncreas f ng the subscrtpl ton price of the publ tr.at ton lo collect a larger share of the cost.

We Intend to complete the transtlton to ful I NRC fu~dfng for the trial period expeditiously, to avoid dfsruplfng the contfnulty of this pertodtcal p11bl icat ton.

Since the process of producing the second 1993 l~sue Is well along, we plan to support Its complelfon as had been planned under 00(-led auspices. It should come out In e~rly 1994. (Tfme needed for the transition steps ts likely to prevent December 1993 tssuance.)

We are tentatively planning to schedule only two addttlnnal tssues for CY 1994. Before preparalfon of theSte luues, we plan to review the current

The Convntssfoners 4 scope and format and, 1n consultation with U1e Ed1tor-fn-Chieft make adjustmenls to enhance the benefits sought. This is not the first time for making adjustments; the journal's scope. format. and frequency have undergone evolution and adjustment 1n response to changing needs and conditions from ttme to tfme fn ils 34-year history. In the light of early experience, we plan to consider the need for possible further format adjustment and the appropriate longer-term publication frequency.

I We envisage continuation of Nuclear Safety as a medium for publication and broadcasting of state-of-the-art knowledge bearing on reactor safety and nuclear safety fn selected other ar~as. The focus would be broadly on nuclear safety research and technology and on dfssernfnation of per-reviewed articles of wfde application and valJe. Safely tn operation and nafntenance would be encompassed, along with engineering and research wtt a safety focus.

Coverage of current events and items of short-term inte~est would be minimized or el1minated. We will work with the Editor-in-Chief to assure that adequate mechanisms are a~a11able to ensure that the content remafns neutral. safety based, and consistent with NRC's regulatory and regulatory researrh leadersh1p role. without the need for NRC review of content.

During lhP trial period and beyond it, If cont inualion ts warranted, \t Is our i~ter.L,on to c~nttnue to foster high professional quality and editorial independence for Nuclear Safety. Our ~spfratfon for the journal ts to support it as a first-class, independent technical journal, providing contributions of lasting value At the same lime we plan to work with the Editor-in-Chief and groups involved fn physical production of the Journal to streamline the Journal's format and processes so as lo prod~ce the desired professional and physfcal product quality with good economy of resources. The number and distribution of free copies wtll be reviewed.

1he Oft'\ct: ot Huclear R"gu1cttory Research will be the responsible NRC program offf ce.

Resource Rer,utrement~

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R£COMHENOATJON:

That the Commission:

Note that. absent guidance to the contrary from the Commission, the staff will tn approximately 2 weeks conmit to conttnuatfon of Nuclear Safety through NRC funding only.

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e. The Process of treating the Nuclear Safety Journal

c. Table of Contents of the 1992 Issues D, Recent Cost lftstory

Enclosure:

Nuclear Safety, Oct.-Dec. 1992 issue (Provided only for Commtssfoners. OGC &S£CY. This and other issues available from Distribution Services.)

SECY NOTC: In lhc absence of instructions to tho contrary, SECY will notify the staff on Tuesday, October 19, 1993, lhnt the Conunission, by negative consent, assents to lhc a~tion proposed in this paper.

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APPENDIX 8 THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE HUCLEAR SAFETY JOURHAL Ernest G. Silver Edftor-in-Chief, Nuclear Safety November J2, 1992 I

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The Process of Creating .

the NUCLEAR SAFETY Journal 1NTR0DUCTION In order to tnform the technical monitors of the NUCLEAR SAFETY Journal, or, both the DO( and NRC sides, of the steps and activtttes involved tn p11b1ishln9 this quarterly technical progress Journal, thh brief review attempts a step*by-step desert pt1on of the tasks done by the Editor and hts usociates to brtn~ the journal to 1ls readers.

It should be noted that thfs descrtptfon deals prtrnarfly with the *front end' work involved wfth brtngfng the finished and corrected manuscripts and griphi cs to the pofnt where the material ts sent to DOE' s Office of Sdent f fie and Techntcal Informatfon (OSTI), although a brief description of OSTI's acllvt t les and thetr 1nteract1ons wfth the editorial staff is also Included.

All page make-up, composftfon, prfnttr,g, and dfslrfbutfon functions are done by OSTI with separate funding, and are not under the direct control of the Cdltor and hfs staff, although feed-back from the Edttorial staff to OSTI about the flnt shed product is part of the QA process.

From fts very beginning, NUCLEAR SAFfTY was prepared within what was lhen the Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSJC) in the Reactor Ofvtston of the Oak Ridge Nat tonal Laboratory. Although the dtvlston ts now called the Cngtneerfng Technology Dfvtsfon, and NSIC has evolved Into the Operational Performance Technology Sect ton (OPT), the journal continues to be based in its ortgtnal home there, and fts concerns stfll mesh very well wtth OPT's focus on

&11 aspects of nuclear power operations and their safety.

BACKGROUND AND tllSTOBY NUCLEAR SAFETY (NS) ts currently fn fts l~rd year of publication.

Originally, under Hs founding Ed Hor, Wm, Cottrell, the publtcat f on was quarterly, but soon became semi-monthly and rema lned so unt 11 1986 when budget constraints forced a return to the quarterly format still used today. (Volume 26, In 1985, had fhe issues.) Upon Hr, Coltrell's reltrement fn 1984 9 E. G.

Sl1v9r became Edftor-tn-Chlef. NS was ortgtnally part of an entire series of publlcat tons known as *the Ratnbow Series" from the dist inclive colors of the covers of eAch one. All the othet*s have long since been discontinued, leavtng NS, lhe *gold journal" as the only survivor.

Originally NS publ fshed mostly brief tn*house revfews of AEC p!.!bllcatfons and reports, with one longer "Feature* review paper fn each Ism. The Journal predates the emergence of ccrmierctal nuclear power, so early volumes dealt mainly wfth reviews of AEC*sponsored research. As nudur install al ions began to be built and operated by non-governmental

Crealtng NUCLEAR SAFETY Page 2 entities, the emphasis of NS shifted accordingly. ~ith more att~ntion paid to the safety of conrnercial power plants.

lnftfally called a ~rechnfcal Progress Revtew,* durfng fts first 25 years of publtcatton the journal was primarily concerned with broad reviews of the slate Qf the art tn various safety-related areas. Al that ttme most articles were solicited by the journal's editors, and articles descrtbtng new work, rather than (evie~s, were not usually published. It became evident 1n the SO's that a somewhat more 1nclustve poltcy was called for, sfnce there were no other publfcatfons with the stability and prestige of NS 1n which scholarly arttcles reporting new results of experiments or analyses from around the world could be published. Accordingly NS changed tts masthead to read *rechnlcal Progress Journal.* and now accepts, In addition to review-type manuscrtpts, papers that de~cribe new work.

As NS has become better known and established, and as the dominance of U.S. work 1n the nuclear safely field has progressively given way to a more internationally distributed mode, especially in the last decade, HS has Increasingly received unso11c1led manuscripts from both the U.S. and abroad.

Since, fn the Editor-in-Chief's view, such International parttctpatfon tn the field 1s highly beneficial to U.S. workers in nuclear safety. it ts now the policy of the Journal to accept and publish quality papers from abroad if they are judged 'lo be of Interest to the U.S. nuclear safety co1m1unfly. In general, the percentage of unsolicited contributed manuscripts has risen from essentially ze~o tn the early days of the publtcat1on to about 6~ today.

NS STRUCTURE J. sect Ions:

NS ts subdivided tnto eight serttons along subject lines. wtth a Section Editor for each. These sections, and their Section Editors are:

J. General Safety Gary Hays

2. Accfdent Analysis Rust Taleyarkhan

3. Instrumentation &Controls Robert Kryter, C. Ray Brittain 4, Design Features Uon Trauger

s. Environmental Effects Barry Serven

6. Waste &Spent Fuel Management* Crnest Silver (interim)

7. Operating Experience George Murphy

8. Recent Developments Ernest Sflver

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2. Jvoes of Arttcles; There are ba~tcally two types of material in NS:

a) Technical papers, and b) Current-events columns.

The techntcal papers are the articles, usually written by outside authors, that make up the bulk of the journal. Thfs category Includes, in addition to regular articles, Technical Notes (briefer manusct*lpts, often 1n response to published articles), Book Reviews, and Letters to the Editor.

The current-events material is prepared in-house by the Edltor-tn-Chfef, the Assistant Editor, and other Operational Performance T~chnology (OPT)

Section staff members. It consists of regular columns that appeir 1n each issue, including:

Operating U.S. Power Reactors, Acttvltfes Related to Waste and Spent Fuel Management, General Administrative Activities, *'

Reports, Standards and Safety Guides, Reactor Shut-Down Experience, and Proposed (NRC) Rule Changes The *operating U.S. Power Reactors" column includes a table that sunnarizes the operational experience of each US power reactor on a monthly basis. Il lists for each reactor the name, location, owner, reactor type and designet, design power, date of ftrst cormierctal operation, and monthly as well as ltre-time-cumulatfve percent unit capacity and percent forced out~ge rate. Jndustry-sunmed data are also listed, as well as a graphic representation of industry-averaged performance figures.

There ts also an annual listing of nuclear power reactor perforMance wi:*rld-wtde, and occas lonal brief reports of safety-related events tn the nuclear power field.

An additional regular column with reports of interest culled from the

• operating Experience Weekly Su11111ary~ published by DOE's Office of Nuclear SafP.ty will be instituted starting with Issue 33(4), tn order to achieve

-better balance in the coverage of safety-related events.

3, stze of the Journal In principle, each quarterly tssue of the journal contains 150 pages of printed material, which, expertence has shown, translates Into 364 typed doub1~ spaced pages. (ln thts count, figures are each counted as one page, and tables are counted as they appear tn thPlr typed versions.) Of this

Creating NUCLCAR SAFETY Page 4 material, about 240 pages come from the articles, technical notes, letters, and book revtews, and the other 124 come from the current events columns and other special ftems.

Ideally every tssue wtll contain one or two articles, each 20 double-spaced pages long, from each or the first seven sections nafued above, thus adding up to the 240 pages devoted to technical papers. (Section O is special In that fl contains 011ly ancillary m;atertal, but no technical articles.) or course, this Ideal ts never attained; papers range fn length from about 15 to more than 60 pages tn extreme cases (ff the Editor-tn-Chief judges that special ctrcumstances*justlfy such length), and Technical Notes, Letters to the Editor, and book reviews usually are much s~orter.

Also, the exigencies of scheduling often intervene, so that in any one tssue, no articles may be avaflable from one particular sect,on, while another may compensate by cont"ibutlng two or even three papers, or a paper of exceptional length. Jt ts one of the Edftor-1n*Chlef's more difficult tasks to compromise among these factors. 1n addition to considerattons of the variety of subjects, to arrive at acceptable-length issues, wtth a suitable balance of articles wfthin the ttme schedules necessary for periodic publ teat 1on.

THE JOURNAL ARTICLES In t~fs section we shall describe how articles come to be Included In NS, how they are peer-reviewed, the processing they undergo after peer review, and the other acttv,ties required to create the journal.

J) Sources of articles:

Ortglnally all material In NS was solfctted; fn fact there was a stable of revfowers who perfodfcally w-,ote reviews of specified topic areas for fnclusfon fn the journal. During the 70s and sos this approach changed, and writers of review articles were solicited on an ad hoc basts, by the Section Editors, based on thefr knowledge of who the active people were tn their areas of expertise. Thfs put great importance on the broad knowledgeabtlity of the Section Editors; they generally performed very satisfactorily, but there was always a possibility that there might be lacunae in the coverage, since a small grnup of Section Editors could not be presumed lo know everything going on In a very diverse subject area al 111 times.

In order to supplement the articles solfcfted by the Section [dftors, NS began lo accept unsolicited, contributed papers. tnftlally mostly from wtlhtn the United States, and still of the review type. Such papers often were of great importance because they opened up new areas which had not previously

Creating NUCLEAR SAFfTY Page 5 been covered completely, and presented vtewpotnts dlfrering from those conwnonly found.

During this period (the 70s and 80s) art 1cles would frequently be submitted, both from the USA and from abroad, that were techntcal ly sound and of interest to the nuclear safety conrnuntty, but nevertheless not acceptable because they ~ere not rcvtews, but rather reports of new work. Once the current Editor* tn-Ch1ef took over the responsibility for NS 1n 1984, he tried to "salv1ge* such papers by trying to Induce the author or authors to add an introductory section to the paper. setting tt tn context by reviewing the prfor work In the same area. In many Instances. of course, such a revfew alreatJy fonr.ed part of the paper, and only needed to be expanded. It became clear, ho~ever. that quite a few authors especially from abroad, had good papers on ~ell-done work, but were not really In a position to do extensive searche~ for other work, or were doing work where there really was no other body of work to combine wtth thetrs 1n a review-type article. rt was therefore decided, starting wfth fs~ue 32(1) (January-Harch 1991) to change the subtitle of the journal from *Technical Progress Review" lo "Technical

'rogres~ Journal II and to rel ax the requirement that ell art lcles be reviews so is to accommodate papers describing specific research or testing projects and a tfvitfes. The result has been a stgntficant number of hf gh*qual tty papers.

mliy from outsfde the Untted States, whfch have given US readers tnsfghts into wo *k and thinking in other countries that should be highly valuable to the Am\ dean nuclear safety program, and, s1mtlar1y. tns!ghls into some American wor: outstde the usual orbit.

11.l: er Review of Submitted Ha.n_uscripts; NS encourages authors lo submtl the fr papers on PC d f skettes as wel 1 as In ha1 d copy, though this is not a firm requirement. Once papers are receiVed a judg ,ent ts made whether a peer rl:vfew ts called for, Peer review ts used with a l manuscripts with the fol1:>wir1g exceptions:

1 Technical '1otes, book reviews, or letters to the ed Itor, 2 Heeling reports. and

3. Surrrnaries/ extracts of DOE, NRC, or other publlcat 1ons.

Te,~ntcal notes and the like are judged tn-house ~ the NS staff to assure ad1quate quality. Heeling reports are wrtte-ups of technical meetings, such as t1 e HRC Water Reactor Sarety Information Heetfngs, American Nuclear Society Tt1tcal Heettngs, and the ltke. They usually contain a 11st of all the papers presented and a b1*f ef review of the most interest fng aspects of the meeting.

When ~echnical reports, such as NRC NUREG reports or DOE techn1ci'1 reports are Judged to be or particular interest to the nuclear safety

Creating NUCLEAR SAfETY Page 6 corrmuntty, a review of the report 1s occ~sfonally published in the Journal, although thts sort of paper ts not as corrrnonly published now than was the case fn the past. The executive sunrnary of such a report ts often cited at length, or~ succinct sunrnary of the report's salient points is used, often written by an author of the report.

All other papers. whether soltctted or not, are sent to a group of three to ftve (occasionally six) experts in the subjett area for peer review. The revtewers are selected by thP. Section Editor to whose Section the paper has been assigned, and, since we request and usually get reviews fn depth, we try not to ask anyone to review more than one paper a year. We n~pe for three to four reviews of each paper. Former practice was to send the manuscripts for revtew without prior conrnunfcalton with the prospective reviewer; this.

practice results In 60*7'"' success in getting usable rP.vfews back, so that four or ftve reviews needed to be requested. Hore recently we have in many cases contacted prospective reviewers first by phone to ask whether they would be willing to do a review, and with this pre-review screening we get almost 1ooi success 1n obtaining reviews.

Reviewers are asked not only whether they consider the manuscript of suitable content and quality for publication fn NS, but also ask them to make spectflc reconrnendations for improvements, or to raise questions about uncertainties and dtfficulttes, and judge whether the paper. especially ff ft 1s a retiew. 1s comp1ete. in the sense that no significant work ts omitted.

In the great majority of cases we receive three or four excellent and thoughtful review~; very rarely we have to find one or more additional reviewers after the first reviews havP been received, If the reviewers are unanimous as to either acceptance or rejection, there is no problem tn maktng a decision. Wtth "splftN decisions, not an infrequent occurrence, the matter becomes a matter for judgment, generally discussed between the Edttor-tn-Chlef and the approprtale Section Editor. As noted above, In rare cases an additional review ts solicited. Authors are never made aware of the names of reviewers; any reviewer conrn~Rls passed on to authors are *anonym1zed* to protect thetr Identity. (The sins. r *author* ts used in this discussion, even though a majority of papers have ~ore than one author. The procedure ts not affected by the number of authors.)

If a paper 1s clearly rejected (unanimously, or by a 2-to-l or l*to*l m~jortty) the author ts so notified, and the reviewer remarks (in anonymtzed form) are sent to htm by way of explanation. If, in the Edttor-in*Chief's opfnfon, the subject matter ts of sufficient Importance and suttabtlity to warrant ft, the author may be encouraged to try again, taking the reviewer cormients fnto account, and ff he does so, the new paper ts submitted to a new set of reviewers who are not told that a previous effort by the same author was rejected.

If the reviewers are unanimous, or nearly so (3*to*l or 4*to-1 In favor) that a paper should be published, the author ts notified that the paper \s accepted. Even then, however, the pe,*r reviewer's anonymized co11111ents are

CreatfrJ NUCLtAR SAFETY Page 7 sent to the author. and he 1s encouraged to consider the convnents carefully and make such revisions as he thinks w1,1 strengthen the paper. It is made clear to the author that he or shr is not u~liged to make any changes to an accepted paper, but fn fact the vast majority of authors (more than 9~) do undertake at least some revtstons to take the reviewer convnents into account.

In some instances. where the reviewers are evenly, or nearly evenly split, tt becomes a matter of the Editor*in*Chief's judgment what ,ourse to foll~w. Host usually tn such cases there fs one or more major deftcfency fn the paper that some of the reviewers have fdentfffed. In such a case the paper may be gfven a *conditional acceptance,* This means the anonymtzed peer reviews are sent to the author wtth a letter staling what the perceived deftcfencfes arf, and stating that the paper wtll be accepted without additional peer review ff, he revises the paper to the point where, fn the opinion of the Edflor*tn*Ch1ef and Sectfon Editor, the major objections have been adequately remedied. Jf the author follows this suggestion and the paper is sufficiently modtfied, ft ts accepted for publfcatfon.

Htstortcally about 701. of papers submitted are eventually accepted. wtth a higher proportion of solictted papers than contributed papers being accepted.

3) Pos\-Rcv,~w Processing of Articles Articles that have been accepted by the reviewer~ and rev!sed by the author upon lhefr reconmendatfons are ready for post-review processing. This includes:

l. reference checking

2. text edttfng J, grarhlcs preparation Reference checking; Almost all papers have more or less extensive lists of referencesi these lend lo be espectally numerous tn revtewDtype papers that bring together the results from many workers. NS considers these references to be an extremely Important and useful part of the contents of the journal, so all references are checked ,~r accuracy and completeness by a ltbrarfan. Questions, er references not found for verification, are usually discussed with the author to make sure that they are correct or to obtain additional information.

Text edlttnq; All papers, except current ~vents columns and meeting reports written tn*house by the edltorf~l staff, are sent to a text editor for careful editing to make sure lhe material Is granrnatfcally, orthographically, and syntactically acceptable, and that 1t Is comprehensible and clear. ~owadays the articles are of.en received In

~reattng NUCLEAR SAFETY Page 8 magnetic-media form. t.e. on PC diskettes. This facilitates the editing process to a significant deyree. stnce the text edtttng ts done on a PC.

Articles not nn diskettes must be read tn by an optical character reader (OCR) before being edited. The editing process often involves the ra1stng of queries by the text editor with the Edttor-in-Chfef. who then resolves these with the Section Editor or author to clarify obscure p~suges. dertne acronyms, modify units (NS fundamentally us~d metric SI units tll comply with ORNl. requi,ements. but will add non-metric units in puentheses if these will serve as aids to American reade,*s), or eltctt additional tnforrnat1on. The editing process tends to be espectilly needed, and espec;ally difficult, for papers from abroad. for whose authors English fs not their native language. The use of more foreign papers has signff;cantly Increased the cost, ,n both time and money, of the editing process.

The Edttor*in-Chtef reviews each edited paper to check that the rdfttng process has not introduced dfslortfons tn the author's meaning or intent.

As noted above, not all material to be published undergoes this fonnal ~dittng process. The current events columns and meetfng reviews prepared by the £d1tor-1n-Chfef or sktp thts step tn the processinr Graphtcs; Host articles fnclud~ figures, either graphs or drawings. In alMost all cases these must be either completely redra~n or at least modif1ed to adapt them to NS's style requirements and to make them readable in the size in which they wtll be printed. Here toot questions often arise as to units or undefined acronyms, and these are resolved either in-house or in consultation wtth the author. It fs the journal'~

policy that drawings with thetr captions s~ould be largely self-explana-tory so that readers do not have to search through the text of the article to understand the figure. This also oft~n means that ordinate and/or abscissa scales in SI units need to be created to conform to NS usaga. All figurP.s are r~vtewed In det~tl by the Edftor-in-Chief after going through the graphic arts process, and any errurs or problems are identified and dea1t with at th1s stage.

Once the three steps above have been completed 1 a finished copy of the manuscript is prepared, including all fts elements, and reproduced in multiple cop1es for the following purposes:

1, One copy is sent to the author (several ff there aro several authors) with a request for a careful revi£w ,o make sure that the edflfng is acceptable to the author. and that no distort ions of meaning h'ave been introduced. Author~ are ganerally given two to three weeks to return anl' changes or cor,*ect 1cns to t~S.

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,. Co1,tes are sent to both DOE and NRC for a revfew to make sure that thafr policies or positions have not been misinterpreted by tha authors, and that sensitivity or classtficatton matters are not a problem.

3. A copy. with d diskette fn the appropriate word-processing language, ts sent to OSTI for makeup and composition. Note that. in the tnterest of saving time. the return or author or DOE ar NRC corrections ts nnt watttd for before the article goes to OSTI. Corrections are se:1t to osrJ as they come fn.

4) ~ss~mb] tng the NS-Journal So far we have dealt with articles and current-events materials as separate units, and we have seen how finished articles are achieved. There fs, meanwhile, another level or activities required ta produce a fin1$hed product. and to keep the 1ssues coming at the requir~d rate of four per year:

Scheduling: In eac~ Section the flow of manuscripts must be managed so that t?nough niatertal fs available for each issue, but not so much 1s at hand thit authors nPed to waft unduly long to see their articles fn print, or that articles become unduly out of date before publ fcatton. Thts requires careful attention to w~rktng with authors and Section Editors to achieve the desired "flow rates."

]racking: A PC-based tracking system ts used by the Ed1tor-1n-Ch1ef to matntatn up-to date Information about the status of each project, from first solt~itatlon to flral transmittal to OSTI, so tha~ the flow can be managed.

Thfs data base ts a1so used to prepare frequent print-outs by Issue or Section, of the slatu~ of the articles.

Issue Pianning* Sfnce papers differ greatly tn length, and there are also shorter flems. iike book reviews, tcchnica1 notes, and thn like, to be included. ft fs necessary to make repeated page counts to achieve the desired printed page count of -150 pages per issue. This o~ten necessitates last-minute changes such as dropping an article to a later ;ssue or bringing another paper forward as needed. It also lntludes considerations of content balance. for example not printing too many meeting reviews or too many other papers with similar content in a given Issue.

Auxtltarv Haterfal: Auxflfary materials include the author bfographtes\

the edtlorfals, the front cover illustration, the *fut~re Articles* 1\~\1ng for the back cover, the inside front cover material (usually *advert\\\~~* a ne~ information product put out by the Operational Performance Techn~\QgY Section), t~e annual indexes of artfcles 1ncludfng a *Kwf~*lndex* alphabetized by st]nlflcant words in titles and an author listing, and an annual ltst of p!er rPvfcwers. All these items must be organized at the r\ght 't \irit \~ ~~@

ready lo make up each issue.

Creating NUCLEAR SAFE:TY Page 10 Staff Heeltnqs: Quarterly the Cdftor-Jn-Chief con~enes the entire NS staff, including Section Editors, text editor, graphics staff, secretary, and OSTI representatives, to discus~ currer,t. status and.problems and plan forthcoming Issues.

s. os11 functions OSTl receives the articles and other materials described above, and then takes these disparate materials and assembles them into camera-ready copy for transmittal to a contract printer selected by the Government Prfntfng Office, whn prints the j~urnal. OSTI then receives the printed copies tn bulk and malls them to the subscribers.

rn the process of type-setting the articles the OSTI staff does a final edf ting check, which occasionally finds typographical errors or other flaws.

The staff then contacts the Edltor-in-Chl~f to have such problems resolved.

The OSTI work includes the page makeup,l.e. the placem~nt of material on each µage, the selection of appropriate type fonts and the placement of figures and tables. The table of contents is also created In this process.

OSTI takes about a month to perform these functions. and another month fs occupied with the prtnttng and mailing of the journal.

OSTI also maintains the subscription list, and deals with subscribers ff problems arise. DOE and NRC staff get free copies of NS, while outs1de subscribers pay a subscrfptfon fee (currently $20.00 per year domestic and

$25.00 per year foreign) which, by federal rules, covers only printing and dtstrfbutfon.

Ernest G. Silver Editor-in-Chief, NUCLEAR SAFETY November 12, 1992

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OEHEAAL SAfm CONSIDER.A TIOHS WAST! IJtO SPEKr FUEL 11-'HAQEUEtn I T.cMoe.11 No** 'N.... A:lotoacn IO f,uoon ReactOt 7t Ac11~1 RtLllld to W1t11 I/Id 5"111 Fu.I Man&getnlftt Sa*er, ~" V P*mw U D M~tn and E G S,w, I e,, ..,.,m ACCIDENT ANALYSIS OPERATING EJPtRIEHCH I Anllylfl 1/ICI l,IO(lebtlQ OI f ,u,on PrDCuct R,,1111 ~ lrOffl ., .Ao1110 ~ument Of BWR ConlrDI Roa Onve Srs111111 VIIIOl,I U1a11111~Ar.,m,111.,n, Plllt f,i,. Ru;10, fiAtl RH Gr-.,,.

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TPJ NS 3l No 2 NUSMZ 33121,1902 OE9..01M~ ISSN 0029-~

OEHEflAL SAFEl'Y CONSIDERATIONS WASTE AND SPENT FUEL MANAOIIIENT I !IS N,,,.1Hntn W1*11 RHetOI Saltly 11\!0rlNIIOl'I UNl1ng 220 Arr AIUWl'IIM ol 11\e F!AIMl&Di~ Ind E1l)IOllon Al D A l ~ Paten11,101 Oef111w Ttanauran.c WHlt M. &Jva ,J tll Ettllunt 10 IIIICII by J A Snon,,. YOI 32 No

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NUCLE82 A qua11011,. Tec:t1111cal P,og,esa Joumai pr~rlt!J 10' tne U S Oopartment of Ene*gy ano 1t1e u S Nucluar AeQulalG,Y COrnnua11on by v,e C)cflrot*onat Petformanc* Tecnt!Qlogy Section 111 Otik A.dge Na1,on,1 Labot*1ory PuD111hed tJy tne on,ce of f,cient,t,c ond Ttd1nic:ar lnlormalion U S Oepartn1en1 ol Et1etgy 5/lFET!:f Vol. 33. No. ;:,

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DOES 63.273 92,541 95. )06 )14.131 )68.829 )70,659 94,194 NRC S3 ORNL Tot.al 54.7§1 6~1803 Z7,Z70 §Z.Z4Q ~4.JZB §J .434 a~16§Z-118.034 161,344 172,884 176.37) 253,157 252,093 )82,856 4 (211,300) funds expended by OSTJ: lJ, 788s JJ .oeo5 92, 5496 110,144 107,567 113,965 123,0007 (114,500)

GRAHO TOTAL 8 287,400 286,515 360.724 366,058 334.300

Hr. George Scge September 8, 1993

l. lhe money actually spent for text edft1ng and graphics in FY*93 through the Business Month of August 1993 (before overhead) was $22,385 of NRC funds and S 20.1a1 or DOE rund~; we mu1t1ply the tlRC amount by 1.032 to account for the DOE *tax" on NRC projects at ORNL, thus getting a total of S 43,882. We multiply thfs by 12/11 to account for the 12th month, and by l 465 to account for overhead to arrive at the total of $70.130.

2. The numbers ara for only approximately 4S weeks, since no money was available for several weeks fn Aprf 1 and Hay 1993, and for 4 weeks In September 1993.

3. The NRC funds have been incremented by 3.2% to account for the "DOE Tax" on HRC work at ORNL.

4. This amount fs through Business Month August 1993 only, and is also affected by the fact that work had to be stopped because of a fund shortage earlt~r fn the year. It ts estimated that this ffgure represents the expe:ldi lures during 45 weeks of the year, Mult tplylng by 52/4S yields an estimated full-year cost of S 211.300

5. The amounts for FV-87 and FV-88 are for printing of OSTI's copies only.

The makeup and composition in those years was done under DOE contract by the HAXIHA Corporation. The costs are not avatlable to us.

6. 0Sll dtd not begin makeup and composition until October 1988, and reference checking until March 1989. The estimated whole year cost would have been S 114,500.

7. The FV-93 figure ts an estimate furnished by OSTI.

8. lhe totals include a11 estimated corrections as shown tn the fable. No tr.tals are shown for FV-87 and FY-88 1 sfncP. they would be meaningless without the unknown MAXIMA expenditures.

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JNTKROVr1c£ HEHORA>>DUH Dale: 01-Sep-1993 0~:05pm ri:ca: t.eota Kana ICAH£L Dept: Putlication Mgmt Sec Tel ,o: 615-S76-338S TO: Dt. &rnest Silver I PAPER HAlL )

CC: Janice H &l~nton ( 81..AHTOtl)

Subject:

1aucleo1r Safety Journal Io!oi:mation In response to our telophone conversotion of September 3, 1993, Lho following infotm4t1on i3 prov~ded:

19~ copi~s au punted o! the Nuclear- Safet.y TecJmical Progress Journitl !or dl0Lr1but1on !ram O!C1ce ot scienti!1c and Technical lntot?Dation (OSTI).

350 of these ~opJes are sent to Nuclear Regulatory cami.J.5sion tNRC). The 795 copies are the only copies lbat NRC and the Dcpa.rt.JICnt of Inergy {DOI:

arc bJ~led for pcinL.ng.

Addit1ona1iy there are 830 cop1es printed tor the Government Pr1nting O!Cice (GPO) and prov1ded to the Depository Libraries, !5 copies are provid~d to Library o! Congress, 1,415 subscription copies t~rough GPO superintendent of Documen~s. The total number o! copies printed is currently 3,115.

Nuclear Safety Costing Hiatory FY86 rrintinq only done through OSTI s 10. n6 FY87 Printing only done through OSTl 11,788 FY88 rrinting only done through OSTl 11,080 FY89 Composition, page make-up (added 1n Or.tober 881, (added ref@rence cheeks Jn March 89), printing, also includes $1,250 due prior contractor's typesetter 92,549 rY90 Composition, page make-up, rofercnec checks, prinLing 110,144 rY91 Compo~ition, p4gc t11ake-u~, re!erence choc~e, pt1ntin9 107,5'i7 CoJDpos~tlon, page niakQ-up, rcfercneo checks, printing 113,965 FY93 Compos1tion, poge ll'lclke-up, reference ahacko, pr~nting 123,000 (E,timat~d)

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FY94 Est.iaiatc based upon continued 1mprovements in the use of electronic publishin~, reference checta remaining at same level ~nd printing rates continuin~

at Lb~ current rate $108,400

.Additionally, we were approached by Ot!ice of Huclear Energy INE-70) earlier in the year to provide an estil:late for a change in the scope of the work pert~rined by OSTl. I am also focluding that estimale for your benefit. The additional scope i.1cluded text editing and preparation of artwork from draft copy or relettering of artwork if not of sufficient q~ality for the Nuclear Safety publication. The e5timate for the added scope was $J40,000 for the first ye~r plus $35,000 for the additional hatdware/softvare that would be required. The second year estimate for the added scope vould ~ bajed upon the first year ezperience and any tunds not required during the fint yoar would be refunded to client.

The estimate did not include the writing and tec:hnicd editing of article.:, foi:

Huclear Safety or peer review and coordination of project (all was to rl!mln at ORHL).

I! the d&cision is made by NRC to fund the publ\cation, osrr would pre!er to haue an Interagency Agreement and would vork ou~ the details vitb NRC, If you require any additional information please feel free to call at S1o*)38S and in my abaenee Janice Blanton, 576-1323,

CONTAINS SENSITIVE FINANCIAL INFORMATION LIMITED TO THE NRC UNLESS THE COMMISSION OTHERWISE DETERMINES.

APPENDIX A RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS Resource requirements for FY 1994 and FY 1995 to carry out the described plans are expected to be $250K each year. The costs break down as follows:

. FY 94 Completing the second 1993 issue $ 30K Two 1994 issues (including trans*itional costs) 220K Two 1995 issues (with modestly larger content) 250K Total 250K 250K These annual resource requirements exceed by $165K the $85K NRC annual

• contribution* under the joi.nt DOE-NRC funding arrangement that is now ending.

These projected requirements cover both the editorial work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (about 70% of total) and the production functions of the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (30%). The printing and distribution costs of the copies sold through the Government Printing Office and the sale income are GPO costs and income and do not affect NRC resource requirements.

In considering the worthwhileness of continued publication beyond FY 1995, we will determine future-year resource requirements in the light of early experience and evolving needs. At thi_s time, we do nQt expect that funding requirements for the next few years will differ greatly from our estimate for FY 1994. We have no reason at this time to believe that substantially greater resource commitments will produce sufficient enhancement of the journal's benefits to justify them.

CONTAINS SENSITIVE FINANCIAL INFORMATION LIMITED TO THE NRC UNLESS THE COMMISSION OTHERWISE DETERMINES.

., e UNITED*STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION L WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 October a, 1993 COMFR-93-006 MEMORANDUM FOR:

Commission FROM:

SUBJECT:

SE Y-93-273 - CONTINUATION OF THE "NUCLEAR SAFETY" JOURNAL I commend the Office of Research on its recommendation and fully support the staff's position that publication of the Nuclear Safety journal provides a valuable service to this country, and that the NRC should fully fund this effort for a trial period if DOE discontinues its support.

As the staff indicates, "Nuclear safety is the only professional journal in the U.S. dedicated to the subject of nuclear safety ***

[I]t can provide an efficient vehicle for disseminating to the nuclear community information of a high quality on nuclear safety

-- and especially on nuclear safety research * * *

• Beneficiaries of this information include the NRC and it contractors, the nuclear industry, DOE and its contractors, various segments of the public and the academic community **** Of particular interest to the NRC is the benefit that continuing publication of Nuclear Safety could provide to NRC licensees in exercising initiative in ensuring safety in their plants beyond minimal compliance with NRC regulatory requirements. Ready access to up-to-date nuclear safety information including new developments, is important for this purpose." It serves as a mechanism for maintaining technical expertise within the United states, and it is an excellent medium for technical peer review of state-of-the-art science communication in nuclear safety technology.

I recommend that the staff prepare a letter to the Secretary of DOE on behalf of the Commission for the Chairman's signature requesting that DOE reconsider its decision to discontinue funding the publication of this journal. The letter should encourage DOE to carefully consider the ramifications of its decision on this country's long-term technical expertise in nuclear safety science and technology.

SECY please track.

cc: The Chairman commissioner Rogers commissioner de Planque EDO OGC ACRS