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JBecker ELD FROP: H. J. Faulkner, Chief RBrady, SEC Technical Liaison Section Office of International Programs
SUBJECT:
ISRAELI VISIT RE00EST (FEPRUARY 70. 1905)
The Israeli Atomic Energy Comission (IAEC) has recuasted an NRC eppointment Q on Wednesday, February 20, 1985, for Dr. Dan Litai, Director of the IAEC Licersing Division, to discuss the following issues:
- 1. The IAEC is interested in havine NRC conduct a peer review of its k licensing regulations. (I believe that this is to include sone, or all of t'se Licensing Division (LDI) regulations outlined in the enclosed list
% whir.h Dan Litai provided to NRC during his November 1984 visit.)
- G 2. Iiformal discussion of a new IAEC regulation governing contractural
( h) errargements of third party suppliers (the actuel title of the reguletion 00 is " Licensing Requirements Regarding Contracts Betwaen Suppliers, A/E's
', and Utilities). Regarding this topic Dr. Litiai indicated that he was
' G interested in discussing the technical aspects of this topic over tN( judicial or financial considerations.
qQ W If acceptable, I suggest scheduling a 90-minute sessinn beginning at 9:30 a.m.
in my office (403 EW/S) for Dr. Litai to identify the acturl licensing Q regulations which the IAEC are proposing to submit to NRC for a peer review, y and for a p:utual discussion of the scope of such a critique, manpower N requirements, end outline a schedule for conpletion of the proposed review.
9 I suggest that this discussion be followed by a 45-ninute sessior beginnino at 11:00 a.m., aise in my offict, to cover the second item on third party contracts.
Please advise Bob Senseney (49-797111, IP, whether you can acenrrodi:te this request and, if so, the nene(s) of the staff rember(s) who will perticioatc.
H. J. Faulkner, Chie#
85092b% PDR Technical Liaison Section PhERCO85-.579 A
Office of International Proorans
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A . i S. ,. " B. BASIC LDI REGULATIONS REGARDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS 9
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- The Licensing Division of the IAEC (LDI) has issued a number of I technical regulations and policy documents concerning various issues related
- to site selection, and t;o the desgin, construction, and operation of NPP's
! in Israel. The following is a list of rulings that have been issued by t October 1984 A brief description of these rulings and'a statement of their lesql status is also included (the term " proposed" signifies that the I
indicated ruling has not yet been officially adopted):
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(1) Policy Statement on QA Requirements in the Design and Construction of Nuclear Reactors:
- Announces the acceptability of the codes and standards of the vendor's country.
- Proposes that the applicant assume general responsibility for implementing an appropriate QA program for the siting investigations, design, procurement, construction and -operation of the plants.
- Proposes that the LDI will review the utility's QA program, conduct j fairly complete audits where relevant, and perform numerous spotchecks of plans, components, work proedures, etc. with the help of an outside contractor,
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- Reserves the right (of the LDI) to require special testing
( { procedures, or employ particular codes in the fabrication of a select j list of components if that is found to be preferable to the vendor's practice and sufficiently important to warrant the change (no specific procedures have been developed so far).
I I (2) Geo-Seosmological Siting Crieteria for Nuclear Power Plants:
- Lists important issues that must be addressed in the site investigations,
- provides acceptability (and abortion) criteria for a site from seismotectonic aspects.
- Provides seismic desgin criteria, wherein the OBE is defined as the "300 yr Earthquake, but not less than 0.4 of the SSE", which in turn I
should be selected on the basis of a complete geological,
' seismological, and historical evaluation of the site region, both by {
deterministic and probabilisitic methods. Also includes guidelines I for selecting response spectra, I - Provides guidelines for evaluating the geological and seismological data.
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% ... t (3) QA Requirements in Site Investigation: !
Establishes the need for a QA program, and emphasizes areas, issues and. measurements of particular interest in this respect. !
, (4) Requirements For Protection from External Missiles:
Establishes need to evaluate external man-made and natural risks.
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Proposes Guidelines for " safe distances" from air ports, and areas of p military training activities, f f
Establishes the need to design the plant to* withstand a direct crash of a military aircraf t and proposes to assume that it is carrying a single 250 kg. bomb which explodes at contact.
(5) Policy Statement on the Protection of the Plant Against Hostile Activity: !
Establishes the need to include hostile acts in the design basis of the plant (wartime attacks - included). ,,
', - Leaves the choice of an appropriate "Desig n Basis . Threat" to the f applicant but requires justification.
- Announces that credit may be given to ntimerous alternate provisions for enhanced ESF designing, such as - ["
- General hardening (as in sec. 4 above)
- Selective hardening of interior areas i
- Redundant and separated critical systems (ECCS entries, diesel -
generators, control facilities, etc.) .
- Improved mitigation techniques (containment spray, core cavity t cooling, etc.)
as well as to remote siting and efficient emergency plans. ,
(6) Radiological Protection Guidelines and Standards:
Are based on international recommendations, and are commensurate with existing national laws.
List basic limits of exposure for workers and members of public, as well as derived limits, and propose emergency reference levels. '
- Propose guidelines for various issues such as: Exemptions with regard to this regulation, recoannended investigation levels for urinalysis, requirements for keeping dose records, and others.
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-,a (7) Demographic Siting Criteria For Nuclear Power Plants (proposed):
Defines safety belts around site (exclusion zone, limited population zone).
Defines target values for limits of tolerated individual and societal
- risk through exposure under specified operational and wartime accident conditions.
Provides procedure for verifying if site meets requirements.
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- (8) General way):
Design Requirements (not issued yet u b t considered important any Strong preference for a
" Proven-technology" type of reactor (new
- designs may require a significant amount of analysis, tests, simulation, etc. in the licensing proccess),
Strong preferrence for a standard reactor design to minimize errors, and other adverse effects (i.e. minimum changes in maindesign geometry and components). NSSS, Attention to special problems: -
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- Habitability under abnormal conditions Inservice inspection (e.g. in accordance with IAEA Safety Guide 50-SG-02 of the NUSS series)
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