ML20247F598
| ML20247F598 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 04/15/1998 |
| From: | Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Cotter B Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9805190444 | |
| Download: ML20247F598 (1) | |
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. I approve the addition of a full or part April 7,1998 time materials scientist expert in ASt.8P
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with the limitation that hiring can be
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accomplished within the FY1998 and FY1999 budgeted FTEs.
MEMORANDUM TO: Chairman Jackson 3
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B. Paul Cotter, Jr.
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EXPERTS NEEDED FOR Pl. ANT LIFE EXTENgON ^ ^^"I Tf initials
.......e Pursuant to our April 3,1996 discussion, I asked three technical rnembers of the Panel, Judges Kline, Kolber and Murphy, to consider whether the ASLBP needs additional expert members to adjudicate the technicalissues that could arise in the upcoming plant life extension cases.
They concluded that:
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The existing members of either the full-time or pad-time groups have sufficient expertise to resolve the majority of potential issues; 2.
Resolution of one class of issues, those related to material aging, such as polymers, and corrosion, could benefit from assistance in such disciplines as mate 6ials science or matenals engineering; and 3.
A materials scientist would be ofimportant assistance in the forthcA Ag high-level waste (HLW) case because of the recent developing interest in the long term integrity of waste packages under corrosive conditions.
in reaching their conclusions, the judges consulted all of-the full 4sme technical members, reviewed the expertise avg l table from the full-time and part4ime rosters, reviewed issues in the, Diablo Canyon Econse recapture case, and reviewed applicable portums c(the regulations goveming plantlife extensim AE of the technical members bereve that our existing capabilities are adequate to handle plant life exteneien cases because of their siminnrity in rear *w armano <=aa. H<mawar.rw =
disagreed lhet a matenals adenhst could be useful in these cases and would be helpful in the HLW case. The experilse currently available from fus time panel members is probably
+f+M to a4udicate license extension cases, but the absence of any one of several members would lead to a serious gap. Broad ocelo engineering expertise resides as well within.
several part4lme members.'
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'In addition. there are individuals on our Re0 ster of candidates qualified for appointment i
to the Panel with chemical engineering expertise which might ' ciude corrosion chemistry and m
engineering.
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