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M240118: Slides - J. Lubinski - Strategic Programmatic Overview of the Decommissioning and Low-Level Waste and Nuclear Materials Users Business Lines
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Strategic Programmatic Overview of the Decommissioning and Low-Level Waste and Nuclear Materials Users Business Lines Commission Meeting January 18, 2024

John Lubinski Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

John Lubinski

  • Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Jane Marshall Decommissioning
  • Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and and Waste Programs Low Level Waste Amy Snyder Presenters
  • Senior Project Manager, Reactor Decommissioning Branch Cynthia Barr
  • Senior Risk Analyst, Risk and Technical Analysis Branch Gehan Flanders
  • Health Physicist, Region III 3

Decommissioning and Low-Level Waste Business Line Program Overview

  • Regulation of Decommissioning, Low-Level Waste, and Uranium Recovery
  • Implementation of decommissioning oversight programs
  • Decommissioning activities:
  • 23 decommissioning power reactors, 16 in active decommissioning
  • 2 research test reactors, 8 complex materials sites
  • 3 uranium recovery sites , 5 licensed uranium recovery decommissioning sites
  • 19 Title I and 7 UMTRCA Title II sites
  • Surface Ship Support Barge
  • Low-Level Waste Program and support the DOE with Waste Incidental Reprocessing (WIR) 4

Decommissioning and Low-Level Waste Business Line Business Line Priorities

  • Promote an organizational culture that values knowledge management, staff training, career development, and recognizes individual and group contributions
  • Integrated resource utilization and risk insights
  • Improve business processes and products
  • Inspire stakeholder confidence 5

Jane Marshall Director Division of Decommissioning, U r a n i u m R e c o v e r y, a n d W a s t e Program

Leveraging previous experience to better inform our reviews of future licensing actions 7

Ensuring that staff has the skills, knowledge, and tools to complete necessary decommissioning reviews 8

Communicating with external stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient decommissioning 9

Amy Snyder Senior Project Manager Reactor Decommissioning Branch Division of Decommissioning, Uranium R e c o v e r y, a n d W a s t e P r o g r a m

Using risk principles and information to inform decision making 11

Staff risk informed their confirmatory survey plans to increase confidence in our decision making 12

Cynthia Barr Senior Risk Analyst R i s k a n d Te c h n i c a l A n a l y s i s B r a n c h Division of Decommissioning, U r a n i u m R e c o v e r y, a n d W a s t e Program

Domestic operating experience has emphasized the need for enhancements in decommissioning guidance

  • DUWP-ISG-2 was developed to address guidance needs by extending MARSSIM to hard to access locations in the subsurface.
  • The ISG is expected to increase transparency and better support risk-informed decision-making in the decommissioning process.

You can find the ISG and other reports on the NRCs What's New in Decommissioning web site.

Image Credit: Figure 2.9 Iso-Pacific S3 soil sorting system (bottom right). 14

NRC is benefiting from international collaboration to address more challenging surface and subsurface survey issues

  • Leveraged the international community to address technical issues of importance to decommissioning in the United States.
  • Organized a Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) decommissioning innovation workshop.
  • Stood-up an NEA Expert Group to address guidance gaps to support more efficient and effective decision-making.

See WPTES Innovation Workshop web site for more information and presentations.

Image Credit: See Sven Alfelder IAEA DUM-GEM project presentation at the above link. 15

NRC is leveraging domestic and international experience to identify and shape research activities to address current and future challenges

  • NRC is sponsoring work to update commonly used computer codes such as Visual Sample Plan (VSP) to design radiological surveys incorporating methodologies laid out in the updated guidance.
  • NRC is staying vigilant to ensure its regulatory readiness to address emerging and innovative technologies in the field of radiological survey methods See Drones for Decommissioning report for more information.

You can find this and other reports on the NRCs What's New in Decommissioning web site.

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Gehan Flanders Health Physicist Division of Radiological Safety and Security Region III

Providing effective oversight of decommissioning activities to ensure safety and protect the environment

  • Conducted extensive confirmatory surveys and sampling at the Zion site (Region III)
  • Utilized inspection activities at the GE-H Vallecitos BWR to confirm that the RPV removal did not create significant environmental impacts (Region IV)
  • Inspectors at Vermont Yankee observed radioactive waste movement and segmentation (Region I) 18

Building constructive relationships with local communities through public engagement

  • Fostered transparency and engagement at Palisades, Pilgrim, and Indian Point community meetings.
  • Partnered with DOE-LM and the State of New Mexico to engage with the Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico at decommissioning uranium recovery sites 19

John Lubinski Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

John Lubinski

  • Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Theresa Clark
  • Deputy Director, Division of Materials Safety, Security, State, and Tribal Programs (MSST)

NMU Sherrie Flaherty Presenters

  • Senior Intergovernmental Liaison Project Manager, MSST Robin Elliott
  • Senior Health Physicist, DRSS, Region I Joey Rolland
  • Mechanical Engineer, MSST 21

How We Regulate 11 NRC States Leaders of the 39 Agreement States 3 Letters of Intent National Materials Program Who We Regulate 17,000+ licenses 8,258 industrial 884 other 7874 medical 693 academic 22

NMUs scope is diverse, highly visible, and cooperative

  • Major rulemakings on high-interest topics
  • Licensing and oversight using risk and data
  • National Materials Program infrastructure
  • Event response and operating experience
  • Stakeholder confidence 23

Work is achieved through partnership - at home and abroad 24

Were ready with a new cadre of recruits 25

Theresa Clark Deputy Director D i v i s i o n o f M a t e r i a l s S a f e t y, S e c u r i t y, S t a t e , a n d Tr i b a l Programs (MSST)

NMU: Ready for the Future Enhancing Domestic and International Collaboration of Source Security Status of Training and Development of NRC and Agreement State Staff Advancements in Tribal Outreach 27

NRC is a recognized international leader in advancing source security 28

Solid, timely training positions NMP staff for the future 29

A realigned tribal team is increasing outreach and consultation 30

Sherrie Flaherty Senior Intergovernmental Liaison Project Manager D i v i s i o n o f M a t e r i a l s S a f e t y, S e c u r i t y, S t a t e , a n d Tr i b a l Programs (MSST)

National Materials Program & IMPEP

  • Working together to ensure protections of public health, safety, security, and the environment.
  • 40 Radiation Control Programs:

39 Agreement States and the NRC

  • Performance evaluated using the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation Program (IMPEP) 32

NMP Assistance with Programmatic Challenges

  • NRC and Agreement States assisting each other
  • Challenges were self-identified and identified through IMPEP
  • Working group established to assist in early identification and support 33

Working Group Recommendations

  • Enhancing Awareness of Programs
  • Improving IMPEP Assessment Performance
  • Consistent and risk-informed
  • Meaningful performance metrics
  • Increase efficiencies
  • Tools to identify potential issues and facilitate prompt corrective actions
  • NMP strategies to assist with performance challenges 34

Assessing the Ability to Monitor National Materials Performance Working Group

  • Sherrie Flaherty, Co-Chair, NRC NMSS
  • Brian Harris, NRC OGC
  • Santiago Rodriguez, Co-Chair, State of
  • Tammy Bloomer, NRC Region I

Robin Elliott Senior Health Physicist Division of Radiological Safety and S e c u r i t y, R e g i o n I

Risk Informed Inspections

  • Risk informed inspections results:
  • Improved licensee safety & security
  • Improved communications, understanding, event reporting
  • Focus on highest priority activities
  • Risk informed documentation review 37

Risk Informed Inspections

  • Inspection Procedure risk modules have:
  • Guided inspectors on the prioritization of focus areas
  • Resulted in deeper evaluation of high-risk activities
  • Focused inspectors on risk-informed value-added findings 38

Anticipating New Emerging Technologies

  • Reviews of new medical technologies
  • On the Horizon
  • Ce-134
  • Pb-212
  • At-211 39

Anticipating New Emerging Technologies (Cont.)

  • Staff involvement ensures early engagement on emerging trends.
  • FDA
  • Manufacturers
  • Attending Professional Meetings
  • On-going staff training 40

Joey Rolland Mechanical Engineer D i v i s i o n o f M a t e r i a l s S a f e t y, S e c u r i t y, S t a t e , a n d Tr i b a l Programs (MSST)

Comprehensive revision to certain materials license reviewer and inspector qualification guidance facilitated by a diverse team representing the NRC regions and the Scope Agreement States IMC 1248 GENERAL QUALIFICATION GUIDANCE IMC 1248 APP A LICENSE REVIEWER IMC 1248 APP B INSPECTOR IMC 1248 APP C EXEMPT DISTRIBUTION REVIEWERS IMC 1248 APP D SEALED SOURCE DEVICE REVIEWERS

Steering Committee:

Theresa Clark, NMSS The Team Jared Heck, Region III This effort benefits from a Tammy Bloomer, Region IV range of experience from the NRC and the Agreement States

  • Mohanned Kawasmi, Chair Region IV
  • Kyle Bischoff, Region IV Advisor
  • Danielle Williams, NMSS
  • Netra Patel, Region I
  • Sherrie Flaherty, NMSS
  • Auggie Ong, New
  • Tawny Morgan, North
  • Elizabeth Tindle- Carolina Engelmann, Region III 43

Approach Address learnings from the implementation of the qualification program in past years.

Add flexibilities so the qualification process works better for experienced and new employees.

Emphasize the importance of collaboration across the National Materials Program to best prepare license reviewers and inspectors.

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Approach (Cont.)

Develop a basic qualification card that is consistent with other inspection programs in the agency.

Develop tools to improve support of individuals seeking qualification.

Include a common signature authority process.

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Backup Pictures 47 Acronyms

  • AAPM - American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • DRPs - Discrete Radiological Particles
  • DLLW- Decommissioning and Low-Level Waste
  • DOE -Department of Energy
  • ET - Evapotranspiration
  • FTE - Full Time Equivalent
  • HDR - High Dose Rate
  • IMPEP - Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation Program
  • ISG - Interim Staff Guidance
  • LTP- License Termination Plan
  • MARSSIM- Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual 48

Acronyms

  • NMP - National Materials Program
  • NMU - Nuclear Materials Users
  • NPL - National Priorities List
  • NSM - National Security Memorandum
  • PSDAR- Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
  • RAMP - Radiation Protection Computer Code Analysis and Maintenance Program
  • RCPs - Radiation Control Program
  • RESRAD - Residual Radioactivity Code
  • SSSB - Surface Ship Support Barge
  • VSP - Visual Sample Plan
  • WPTES - Working Party on the Technical, Environmental, and Safety Aspects of Decommissioning and Legacy Management 49
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