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Press Release 96-143, 24th Annual NRC Water Reactor Safety Info Meeting to Be Held 961021-23 in Bethesda,Md

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Issue date:	10/16/1996
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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs Washington, DC 20555 Phone 301-415-8200 Fax 301-415-2234 l

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! No.96-143 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE i (Wednesday, October 16, 1996)

I 24TH ANNUAL NRC WATER REACTOR SAFETY INFORMATION MEETING l TO BE HELD OCT. 21-23 IN BETHESDA, MD.

l The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's 24th annual Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting, featuring presentations and discussions on a number of leading technical topics, will be held Monday through Wednesday of next week (October 21-23) at the Bethesda (:Md . ) Marriott Hotel.

Participants will include representatives from NRC, U.S.

government laboratories, private contractors, universities, the Electric Power Research Institute, reactor vendors, and a number of foreign agencies.

1 NRC Commissioner Kenneth Rogers will deliver the keynote )

speech at 8:30 a. m. Monday at the opening plenary session, which I will also feature a panel discussion on "Research Needs for Risk- 1 informed, Performance-based Regulation." Themis Spels, deputy director of the NRC Office of Research, will address the meeting luncheon on Tuesday. At the second plenary session at 8:30 a. m. j Wednesday, James M. Taylor, the NRC's executive director for ,

operations, will moderate a panel discussion on "The Role of Research in Nuclear Regulation."

l During the three-day meeting, presentations will be made in seven technical areas - high burnup fuel; reactor pressure vessel embrittlement and thermal annealing; digital instrumentation and control; probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and seismic siting criteria; reactor vessel lower head integrity; containment and structural aging; and steam generator tube integrity. ,

l Those wishing to attend are asked to register with the meeting coordinator, Susan Monteleone of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 130, P. O. Box 5000, Upton, NY 11973-5000.

The telephone number is 516/344-7235, and the fax number is 516/344-3957. Ms. Monteleone's electronic mail address is SMONTELE@BNL. GOV. This Friday (October 18) is the deadline for advance registration, i

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