ML20206P442
| ML20206P442 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/04/1998 |
| From: | Gillespie F NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Collins S NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9905180232 | |
| Download: ML20206P442 (1) | |
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\.....[2 November 4, 1998 MEMORANDUM TO: Samuel J. Collins, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM: Frank P. Gillespie, Chair [N Ad-Hoc Review Panel k l
SUBJECT:
DIFFERING PROFESSIONAL VIEW CONCERNING TERMINATION OF THE OPERATIONAL SAFEGUARDS RESPONSE EVALUATION PROGRAM In memoranda dated August 7,1998, August 21,1998, Thomas W. Dexter, A. Bruce Eamest, Dennis W. Schaefer and David N. Orrik forwarded to you the differing professional view i conceming termination of the Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation Program (OSRE). l The primary concem of the submitters was that the current regulations, as implemented, are deficient in assuring the level of protection required by NRC's Design Basis Threr. #BT) for radiological sabotage at nuclear power plants. Therefore, the on site reviews and exercises done as part of the conduct of an CSRE and the licensees' voluntary modifications, which have preceded or proceeded the OSRE, have become the vehicle f.or ensuring the needed level of
( protection. One submitter did raice the additional concam that following an OSRE, some j licensees have discontinued the increased measures needed to meet the OSRE objectives.
Additional concems were developed during the Panel's review. All concems are discussed in the -
enclosed report.
Your memorandum dated September 1,1998, designated that an ad-hoc panel be formed to -
review this differing professional view. The members of the Ad-Hoc Review Panel were Frank P.
Gillespie as Chair, Arthur B. Beach as a management member, and Elizabeth Q. Ten Eyck ,
as a staff member as recommended and agreed upon by all submitters.
j Enclosed is the Panel's report with its findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
Enclosure:
As stated i
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