ML20198J895

Nominates NRC High-Level Waste Program for 1998 Innovations in American Govt Awards.Nomination Application Encl

ML20198J895
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Issue date:	01/05/1998
From:	Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Parent W HARVARD UNIV., CAMBRIDGE, MA
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January 5,1998 Mr. William Parent, Executive Director innovations in American Govemment Program John F. Kennedy School of Govemment Harvard University 79JFK Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Mr. Parent:

I am pleased to nominate the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission High Level Weste Program for the 1998 innovations in American Govemment Awards. The Commission I

appreciates the opportunity to participate in this awards program.

Sincerely, Shirley Ann Jackson

Enclosure:

Nomination Application

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1. Program Description. Please emphasize its creative and novel elements. What is the innovatleef (400 words) e The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 as amended in 1987 established a national program for the disposal in a geologic repository of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was given responsibility for siting, constmeting, and operating the geologic repository. The U.S. Nuclear j

Regulatory Commission (NRC) was given oversight responsibility consisting primarily of l

developing re;;ulations, conducting prelicensing consultations with DOE at the stafflevel, and eventually licensing a geologic repository to protect public health and safety and the environment. DOE was directed to investigate the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada as a possible site for the geologic repository.

This national program is unique--it has unprecedented regulatory, technical, and political challenges. The NRC staff has had to develop the regulatory framework and technical tools necessary for determining that disposal of 70,000 metric tons or more of spent nuclear fuel and i

high level radioactive wastes can be done without imposing undue risk to public health and safety. In the regulatory framework niena, the staff has led NRC's effort to transition away from i

historical deterministic approaches to licensing critical nuclear facilities, to a risk informed approach % licensing which provides decision makers with the full range of uncertainty associated with any compliance determination. In the technical arena, resource and schedule e

constraints have required a streamlined staff effort to develop the computational tools necessary to determine whether a repository system, a complex non linear system with engineered and natural barriers, meets a prescribed risk standard over an extended time frame of compliance i

(10,000 years or greater). In addition, many of the specific technical issues at Yucca mountain present unique uncertainties that must be resolved with state-of the-art approaches such as -

modeling fluid movement through fractured rock in the unsaturated zone under the thermal load of the waste emplaced in the repository.

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Commission guidance, fthe NRC staff has been developing and applying a risk-informed,-

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2, What problems does your innovative program address? (250 words)

NRC's risk informed regulatory program contributes to addressing the overa of determining if a geologic repository at the Yucca Mountain site for spent other high level radioactive waste can protect the public health and safety a for thousands of years into the future (i e., about 300 generations).

Principle specific problems that the program addresses include:

Ider ifying and prioritizing the issues most important to repository perfo o

licensing.

Resolving technical issues at the stafflevel, which includes addressing u determining how much information about the repository site and design is n demonstrate compliance with a health risk standard.

Developing a practical and implementable regulatory framework that wil eventual adjudicatory licensing hearing process and instill in the public c regulatory decision making process.

Integrating the regulatory framework and issue resolution activities condu diverse team of experts from the natural sciences, engineering, and numeric Effective integration is necessary because most technical issues consist of fields.

complexly coupled natural and human induced processes projected ov years into the future. Consideration of such issue risk informed, performance based approach provides vision, stmeture, and too contribute to better integration.

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3. What are currest and potential benents of your program? What are the direct er ledirect bene 6ts to citiseest (250 words)

Focusing and prioritizing has improved NRCs attention to safety, while greater efficiency has contributed to operating under reduced budgets and reducing costs for a national program that spends over $350 million each year.

NRCs approach has improved integration of the diverse disciplines making up the NRC team of staff and contractois resulting in more effective and efficient technical work.

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many issues, and provides a regulatory basis for more efficient planning before DOE makes t

substantial investments in additional testing and analyses.

A risk. informed regulatory program focusing on safety will improve the decision-making process by helping to ensure that important issues are not overlooked, that the fbil significance of important issues are evaluated, and that insignificant issues are not exaggerated.

Early feedback to DOE and resolving issues at the stafflevel during prelicensing could i

streamline licensing by reducing the issues that might be raised in the licensing review and hearing process, t

it is expected that NRC's approach will contribute to improving public understanding and confidence in the decision making process for ensuring safety and the primary agencies-DOE and NRC-contributing to the process.

Ultimately, a solution to the high level waste disposal problem is the key to resolving other high priority national issues such as the future of nuclear power generation and cleanup of DOE's

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nuclear weapons facilities.

4. What are the most sigalGesnt neblevessents of your program? (Cite the best verifiable evidence.)(250 words)

Focused and restructured NRCs regulatory program around resolving the key technical issues considered to be most important to repository performance at the Yucca Mountain site.

Developed an NRC staff performance assessment mehlology including a total system -

computer code and process and svitem-level sensitivity analyses.

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Developed a logic structure to link the rule, review criteria (in the Standard Review p perfortlance assessments, and resolution of key technical issues into a traceable regulatory framework.

Made progress with D012 toward resolving technical issues at the staff level includi identifying areas of agreement on a performance assessment methodology; narrow of tectonic models; identifying an acceptable seismic design methodology; agreeing with thermal testing program; and agreeing on the upper bound for the probability of a disruption of the repository by a volcanic event.

Published Ove NRC staff issue Resolution Progress Reports containing criteria, tech

1) fault and progress regarding resolution of the following technical issues at Yucca Moun slip and tectonics; 2) range of future climates, hydrologic clTects of climate chan day shallcw groundwater in0ltration; 3) evolution of the near Deld environmen coupled processes on seepage, waste package lifetime, radionuclide release, transport; 4) thermal effects on How, and 5) design control process for the exp facility and preclosure seismic design methodology.

5, llow replicable la the program? What obstacles might others encounter? (250 w The principle of using a risk informed, performance based approach to focus o is applicable to other regulatory programs such as low level radioactive waste d decommissioning of sites and facilities. Ilowever, specinc approaches would be nee the unique characteristics of a particular program. Some obstacles that others might would likely be similar to the challenges we have addressed in our program such as those issues considered most important to safety, developing appropriate analytical to integrating a large staff with diverse technical backgrounds.

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6. Ust all current funding sources, with dollar and percentage contributions for each for your current operating budget. If applicable, include separate subtotals for public and private funds and sources. Provide details of any unusual flesselat features not described elsewhere. (200 words)

Complete funding for NRC's HLW repository program is from Congressional appropriations from the Nuclear Waste Fund established by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. NRC, requested a budget of $17 million for FY 1998 and received an appropriation of $15 million. the DOE program that we regulate has an annual budget of about $350 million, and to date, the national program has spent over $6 billion.

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[nclose ten in$vidually stapler 9hotocopies of the signed data sheel and prog'am descuphon for evaluahon purposes lhe photocopies should be double sided and on thien hole punched. 8 5 by 11 inch gaper (nclose a seltaddressed stamped postcard for our use in acknowled@ng receipt of your apphcahon (A detachable card is provided on the back cover of this applea-l'A brochure )

\\pptwanun tlemilow Appbcahons must te received in our othce by 5 PM. Wednesday January 7,1998 No taesimile (f AX) transmissions will be accepted Anow sm weeks following the apphcahon tcadkne lot acknowledgment. If you have not received your return postcard by March 1,1996, picase contact the innovations Program.

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2. What problem (s) does your innovative program address? (2b8 words)

3. Who are the current and potential benef 6ciaries of your proDram? What are the direct or indirect benefits to cittien

4. What are the snost sl0nlficant schlevements of the program? (Cite the best verifiable evidence.)(250 words)

6. Ilow replicable is the program? What obstacles might others encounter? (250 words)

6. list all turrent funding sutrees, with dollst and percentage contributions for each lor your current operating budg state subiotals ter put,lic and prlyste funds and sources. Pro'llde detalls of any unusual financialleatures not d 10 te cons @ fed for a IthB Innovabons in Ancocan Govemment A*rd. your completed a;thcatan mus!

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