ML18333A274
ML18333A274 | |
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Issue date: | 10/31/2018 |
From: | Alexander Adams Research and Test Reactors Licensing Projects Branch |
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Montgomery C | |
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National Organization of Test, Research, and Training Reactors Research and Test Reactors Licensing Program 2018 TRTR Conference Alexander Adams, Jr.
Chief Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch
Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch
- Major Areas of Responsibility
- Accomplishments
- Ongoing Focus
- Staffing
- Topics of Interest 2
Major Areas of Responsibility
- Licensing project management
- Licensing actions o License amendments o License renewals o License transfers
- Medical isotope production licensing o Construction permits o Operating licenses o Amendments
- Licensing infrastructure o NUREG-1537 o Regulatory guides o ANS standards
Accomplishments
- Licensing support for safe operation of 31 facilities
- License amendments (5 issued, 3 withdrawn, 9 in process)
- Digital I&C amendment technical evaluations complete for Purdue and MIT
- License renewal work continues
- Support to IAEA (document development, advisory committee, workshops, INSARR missions)
- Support to operations center (reportable events)
- Issuance of construction permit for Northwest Medical Isotopes
- Prepare for SHINE and Northwest Medical Isotopes medical isotope facilities construction
- Knowledge center for medical isotope licensing
- Support for advanced reactors and space applications 4
- Reviews continuing o University of Texas - Austin o University of Massachusetts at Lowell o North Carolina State University (power increase)
- Review received o University of California - Davis
- Review re-started o Aerotest Operations
- Review suspended o Texas A&M University AGN - reactor relocation
- Renewal expected o General Electric (4/2021) 5
Rulemaking Proposed rule highlights
- Defined non-power production and utilization facility (NPUF)
- Non-expiring license for research reactors
- Accident criteria for research reactors (1 Rem)
Status
- Rulemaking package being finalized
- ACRS meeting January (public meeting)
- Package due to EDO June 7
Notice of Licensing Actions
- Staff considering ways to increase public transparency of licensing actions for RTRs, including putting information about completed RTR actions on an NRC website
- NRC offers statutory opportunity for hearing on licensing actions via Federal Register notice or NRC Website notice
- Testing facility licensing actions are noticed in the Federal Register
- Research reactor license renewals and transfers are noticed in the Federal Register 7
Licensing Staff Al Adams - branch chief Duane Hardesty - Senior PM RTR/renewal rulemaking Linh Tran - Senior PM RTR Patrick Boyle - PM RTR/nuclear engineer Steve Lynch - PM/medical isotopes Michael Balazik - PM RTR/medical isotopes Geoff Wertz - PM RTR/medical isotopes Xiaosong Yin - PM RTR William (Duke) Kennedy - PM RTR/renewal rulemaking Cindy Montgomery - PM RTR Spyros Traiforos - PM RTR Ed Helvenston - PM RTR 8
Licensing:
Topics of Interest
- Ed Helvenston - quality of submissions, proprietary and security related information
- Panel - digital I&C upgrades
- Panel - rulemaking
- Steve Lynch - medical facility update 9
Research and Test Reactor Licensing Questions 10