ML20207B455
| ML20207B455 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 08/12/1986 |
| From: | Marcus G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| To: | Shumway R NRC OFFICE OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (ORM) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19303E617 | List: |
| References | |
| FRN-51FR24078, RULE-PR-171 AC30-2-11, NUDOCS 8612010042 | |
| Download: ML20207B455 (6) | |
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SUBJECT:
FY 1987 USER FEE ESTIMATES Pursuant to discussions on estimating RES costs from the FY 1987 President's Budget that may be applicable generically to the proposed User Fee rule for operating reactors, the following is provided:
NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH PROGRAM
SUMMARY
FY 1987 President's Budget Generically Applicable Costs Program FTEs Contract ($K) FTEs 1/-
Contract ($K)
Dollars Dollars Reactor Engineering 51 $ 40.100 37/ $ 29,170' Thermal Hydraulic
$ 16,400 3< $ 3,009/
Transients 14
$ 16,820/
Accident Evaluation 19 $ 19.000 17, Reactor Operations and Risk 41 $ 11,800 40' $ 11,550/
Waste Management, Earth Sciences and Health 16 $ 5,640 14 / $ 4.915/
(LessWasteMgtet.) 5 65,464, C 5 92,940 111'
-1/ FTEs are " loaded" with overhead (less Management Direction and Support (MD&S) ) and are allocated based on a prorata share of
! program contract dollars for each program.
Rationale for allocation of these costs is e closed as Attachment 1.
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. . l Attachment No. 1 SEISMIC RESEARCH PROGRAM FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $11,900K Applied to Reactor Engineering Program - $7,400 Applied to Wm. ES and Health Program - 54,500 The seismic threat or hazard is present at all operating nuclear power plants in the U.S. The Seismic Research Program censists of the definition of the hazard and the response of the nuclear power plant systems, structures and All elements except studies on soil liquefaction components to that hazard.
are considered generic. The $200K portion of the budget for soil liquefaction research is considered nongeneric.
AGING / LIFE EXTENSION RESEARCH PROG' TAM FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $5,250K Applied to Reactor Engineering Program - $5,250K The aging process involves systems, components and equipment that are comon in This research program will (1) identify all operating nuclear power plants. -
and characterize ag'ing and service wear effects; (2) identify methods of -
inspection, surveillance and monitoring or of evaluating residual life and; (3) evaluate the effectiveness of storage, maintenance, repair and replacement practices. The research results will be applicable tc all plants and are thus generic.
CONTAINMENT ItiTEGRITY RESEARCH PROGRAM FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $1,300K c-5~
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Applied to Reactor Engineering Program - $1,300K The Containment Integrity Research Program is evaluating the structural and leak behavior of steel and reinforced concrete containment buildings under The scale model tests on steel and concrete severe accident conditions.
containments is considered to be nongeneric since the individual model tests do not represent all containments. However, the separate effects tests on penetrations and seal and gasket material is applicable to all containment types and is, therefore, generic.
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATION RESEARCH PROGRAM FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $2,800K Applied to Reactor Engineering Program - $2,800K r
The Mechanical Equipment Qualification Research Program is providing the technical basis evaluating and improving the criteria for qualifying mechanical The research results will provide input components such as valves and pumps.
to national standards such as the ASME Code and regulatory documents such as regulatory guides and is therefore generic.
' REACTOR VESSEL RESEARCH FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $5,820K Applied to Reactor Engineering Program - $$820K Generic research conducted in the area of reactor vessels Further, relates to all vessels '
embrittlement which must be measured and accounted for.
are made of heavy section steel, the basic properties of which are studied in these programs. Analytical fracture mechanics methods for predicting the behavior of all reactor vessels, and assurance of conformance with federal regulations on material toughness, are developed and validated in these programs. A portion of the funding for these programs (excluded from the sum listed above) especially in the HSST program, is concerned with pressurized e4 4E I 2 ATTAH 1 TO MEMO 87 USER FEES
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thermal shock, and therefore is not considered generic because the PTS issue has little or no impact on BWRs.
PIPING RESEARCH FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $2,600K 'f' Applied to Reactor Engineering Program $2,600K Generic research in piping is limited to the Degraded Piping and International Piping Integrity Research Group (IPIRG) programs, and Aging of Cast Stainless Steel, Materials and operating conditions for both PWRs and BWRs are employed in the two former programs, the aging program has generic application because d reactors have some components of cast stainless steel, including pump casings and valve bodies.
NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION RESEARCH FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $3000K Applied to Reactor Engineering Program - $3000K All research in this area is generic because all operating power reactors will at sometime be decontaminated for maintenance and be decomissione operation so licenses can be terminated.
DECOMMISSIONING AND DECONTAMINATION RESEARCH FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $1,000K f Applied to Reactor Engineering Program $1,000K f
1 All research in this e.rea is generic because all operating power reactors will at some time be decontaminated for maintenance and be decomissi operation so licenses can be terminated.
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FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $3,009K -
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Applied to Thermal Hydraulic Transients Program - $3,009K l l
The part of the Thermal Hydraulic research program that is generically ,
applicable to all LWR types involves research into two phase phenomenology during accidents and into water hamer phenomena, support for the Technical Integration Center which performs studies on all reactor types, s ort to the development of the Nuclear Plant Analyzer which runs both BWR 'd PWR safety analyses, and support for' cooperative code assessment and exp frimental programs involving both BWRs and PWRs. In each case the work is either totally generic in nature (e.g., two phase flow phenomenology) or it is mixed work, sometimes on PWRs and scmetimes on BWRs, with no accounting for the separate tasks.
ACCIDENT EVALUATION
- FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $16,820K Applied to Accident Evaluation Program - $16,820K The Accident Evaluation program involves severe accident research without consideration to reactor type. The research deals with s,uch generic phenomena as severe fuel damage, fuel melt progression, core / concrete interactions, hydrogen production and detonation and steam explosions. These phenomena are applicable to severe accidents in PWRs and BWRs. The severe accident sequence i analysis research applicable to either PWRs or to BWRs has been excluded from the generic total.
RISK AND RELIABILITY RESEARCH l
FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $10,505 Applied to Reactor Operations and Rick Program - $10,505
.p The total effort in this program is generic. The research involves development of improved methods for risk analysis of reactor events that may lead to ,k i
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accidents, analysis of the risk of severe accidents and the consequences of these accidents, analysis of the risk of fires and floods with and without accompanying seismic events, human reliability studies and development of reactor system reliability methodology. All of this work is applicable to all reactor types.
HEALTH EFFECTS PROGRAM FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $415K Applied to Waste Management, Earth Sciences and Health Program -$415K In the Health Effects budget of $600K, $70K is for continuation of a thorium worker study and should not be attributed to power reactor licensees, Also ,
included is $230K to support implementation of the major revision of 10 CFR Part 20, Standards for Protection Against Radiation, primarily intended to regulate worker protection. Based on an approximate distribution of radiation workers between power reactors and other NRC and State licensees, half of the Part 20 support work ($115K) is attributable to power reactors. Included in the
$600K was $300K to provide contractual support for the Radiation Exposure Infonnation Reporting System (REIRS). Almost all of the REIRS contract work is processing tennination reports from nuclear power plants as required by 10 CFR 20.408. Thus the fraction of the $600K budgeted for Health Effects which directly and generically supports power reactor licensees is $415K.
REGJLATORY APPLICATIONS FY87 Generically Applicable Budget - $1045K Applied to Reactor Operations and Risk Program - $1045 Included for FY 1987 are: $1,000K for regulatory support, and $295K for protective action decisionmaking. All of the $295K Protective Action work is for support of power reactor emergency planning. $750K of the regulatory support work is directly attributable to power reactors.
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