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NRC Presentation for 11-3-21 Public Meeting on RG 1.247
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Issue date: 11/03/2021
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Public Meeting on the Pre-Decisional Draft Version of RG 1.247 Anders Gilbertson Michelle Gonzalez Reliability and Risk Analyst Reliability and Risk Analyst Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research November 3, 2021

Overview

  • Purpose
  • Background
  • Next steps Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 2

Purpose To discuss views and perspectives on PRA acceptability for NLWRs as it relates to the pre-decisional draft of RG 1.247 Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 3

Background

  • NEIMA signed into law in January 2019; Staff immediately began organizing effort to endorse the NLWR PRA standard
  • Staff issued draft white paper on NLWR PRA acceptability issues 1/15/2021 (ML21015A434)
  • NRC has participated throughout the consensus standards development process, including providing feedback on proposed PRA standards and industry guidance documents Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 4

RG 1.247 Regulatory Paradigm

  • RG 1.247 may be used to meet regulatory requirements related to the use of PRA
  • The use of RG 1.247 helps reduce the need for an in-depth review of the PRA (RG 1.200 relates to obviating the need)

- Section C of RG 1.247 provides the staff position on PRA acceptability for NLWRs

- Appendix A provides the staff endorsement of the consensus PRA standard

  • RG 1.247 defines an application more broadly to accommodate design, construction, and operational regulatory activities
  • Peer reviews are important for establishing confidence in a PRA for RIDM and required by the NLWR PRA standard Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 5

RG 1.247 Development Approach

  • RG 1.247 addresses all sources of radioactivity, all hazards, all plant operating states, and all levels of analysis
  • Staff positions in RG 1.247 included consideration of relationships between similar requirements in the NLWR and LWR PRA standards Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 6

RG 1.247 v. RG 1.200 Comparison Some Similarities Some Differences Both provide guidance to applicants and licensees on: RG 1.247 provides staff positions on the acceptability

  • What is an acceptable PRA of PRA technical aspects for NLWRs that have either
  • The use of voluntary consensus standards and an not been addressed or have been addressed more acceptable peer review process broadly in RG 1.200
  • Plant Operating State Analysis for all POSs
  • Demonstrating the acceptability of a PRA for an application
  • Internal fire PRA for LPSD-types of POSs
  • PRA documentation needed to support a regulatory
  • Radiological consequence decision
  • Risk Integration Both provide an endorsement of a national consensus RG 1.247 provides specific guidance on determining PRA standard in a mark-up format and endorsement of risk significance and the use of relative and absolute industry guidance on PRA peer review importance measures Both address all hazards and hazard groups There are relatively few pieces of application-specific guidance for risk-informed NLWR regulatory activities Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 7

Notable Staff Positions in RG 1.247 PRA Element Some Staff Position Considerations

  • Considers that there may be more than one type of at-power POS (e.g., online Plant Operating refueling)

States for all POSs

  • Considers the potential future need for a related LWR staff position Internal fire PRA for
  • Considers the potential for developing similar staff position for LWRs in the future LPSD-types of POSs
  • NRC initiating a research project to develop guidance
  • LMP applications evaluate frequency and radiological consequence risk Radiological
  • Commission expectations should be met as expressed in various policy statements Consequence
  • Commission direction in SRM-SECY-82-102 dictates that risk surrogates may be used
  • Staff position relates to meeting Commission expectations, as expressed in the Advanced Reactor Policy Statement, which references the Safety Goal Policy Statement and the importance of meeting the QHOs Risk Integration
  • Unless justified, relative risk-significance criteria should be used to develop the PRA.
  • Staff determination of PRA acceptability does not include consideration of risk reporting thresholds Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 8

Regulatory and Applicability Aspects

  • RG 1.247 applies to risk-informed NLWR regulatory activities under:

- 10 CFR Part 50 (construction permit, operating license)

- 10 CFR Part 52 (standard design certification, combined license, standard design approval, manufacturing license)

  • RG 1.247 applies to stationary NLWRs only Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 9

Endorsed Technical Elements

  • All 18 technical elements in NLWR PRA standard: 10. Seismic PRA
1. Plant Operating State Analysis 11. Hazards Screening Analysis
2. Initiating Event Analysis 12. High Wind PRA
3. Event Sequence Analysis 13. External Flooding
4. Success Criteria Development 14. Other Hazards PRA
5. Systems Analysis 15. Event Sequence Quantification
6. Human Reliability Analysis 16. Mechanistic Source Term Analysis
7. Data Analysis 17. Radiological Consequence Analysis
8. Internal Flood PRA 18. Risk Integration
9. Internal Fire PRA
  • and ASME/ANS RA-S-1.4-2021:
  • Definitions and risk assessment application
  • PRA configuration control
  • Notes in the nonmandatory appendices
  • Peer review requirements
  • Newly developed methods Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 10

NRC Endorsement Efforts

  • NRC staff member provided support to the standard development working group
  • NRC supported the JCNRM ballot of the ANLWR PRA Standard

- NRC staff submitted 489 comments during the first consideration ballot (May 2020)

- NRC staff submitted 70 comments during recirculation ballot (August 2020)

  • Appendix A of RG 1.247 shows a total of 147 staff positions

- 33 qualifications

- 114 clarifications

  • Staff positions may change after considering ACRS comments and public feedback Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 11

Staff Position Categories Each staff position is categorized into:

  • No objection - The staff has no objection to the requirement
  • No objection with clarification - The staff has no objection to the requirement, however, clarified its understanding of these requirements Generally speaking, this includes cases where a statement is judged to be ambiguous enough to be mis-interpreted and the acceptability of the PRA may be impacted
  • No objection subject to the following qualification - The staff has a technical concern with the requirement and provided a qualification to resolve the concern Generally speaking, this includes cases where a statement is judged to have a specific technical issue and the acceptability of the PRA may be impacted Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 12

Bases for the Staff Positions

  • JCNRM did not address about 20 staff comments during ballot process stating that comment needs to be addressed first in the LWR Level 1/LERF PRA standard
  • 8 comments were considered as regulatory issues
  • Some comments were not addressed consistent with NRCs proposed resolution during balloting
  • Staff positions in RG 1.247 were developed to be consistent with the staff positions in RG 1.200, Rev. 3
  • Additional considerations after balloting Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 13

Endorsement of NEI 20-09

  • NRC staff received NEI 20-09, Rev. 0 on June 1, 2020
  • Staff reviewed and provided observations during a public meetings
  • NEI addressed and submitted Rev. 1 of NEI 20-09 on May 5, 2021
  • NEI 20-09, Rev. 1, is based on a related industry PRA peer review guidance document, NEI 17-07, Rev. 2, Performance of PRA Peer Reviews Using the ASME/ANS PRA Standard, as endorsed by RG 1.200, Rev. 3
  • The staff finds that the guidance in NEI 20-09, Rev. 1, is acceptable and thus endorses NEI 20-09, Rev. 1, without exception, in RG 1.247, Section C.2.2 Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 14

Next Steps

  • Consider feedback from ACRS
  • Consider additional views and perspectives from stakeholders
  • Issue RG 1.247 for trial use - early 2022
  • Duration of the trial-use period will depend on current rulemaking efforts and feedback from early use
  • Brief ACRS on future changes to the RG
  • Continuous public engagement Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 15

Acronyms

  • ACRS - Advisory Committee on Reactors Safeguards
  • ANS - American Nuclear Society
  • ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 10 CFR - Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
  • JCNRM - Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management
  • LPSD - low-power and shutdown
  • LWR - light-water reactor
  • NEI - Nuclear Energy Institute
  • NLWR - non-light water reactor
  • NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • QHO - quantitative health objective
  • POS - plant operating state
  • RG - regulatory guide
  • RIDM - risk-informed decision making Public Meeting on Draft of RG 1.247 11/3/21 16
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