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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 Over view 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 P re s e nte rs
  • 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, Uranium Recovery, and Waste 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 Recovery, and Waste Program Using risk principles and information to inform decision making

11 Staff risk informed their confirmatory sur vey plans to increase confidence in our decision making

12 Cynthia Barr Senior Risk Analyst Risk and Technical Analysis Branch Uranium Recovery, and Waste Division of Decommissioning, 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 NRC s 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 sur vey 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 NRC s What's New in Decommissioning web site.

16 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 S tate s Leaders of the 39 Agreement States National 3 Letters of Intent 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 Division of Materials Safety, Security, State, and Tribal 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 Division of Materials Safety, Security, State, and Tribal 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-in formed
  • 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-Cha ir, NRC NMSS* Brian Harris, NRC OGC
  • Santiago Rodriguez, Co-Chair, State of
  • Tammy Bloomer, NRC Region I
  • Lizette Roldan-Ot ero, NRC Region IV

35 Robin Elliott Senior Health Physicist Division of Radiological Safety and Security, Region 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 va l u e -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.
  • Manufacturers
  • Attending Professional Meetings
  • On-going staff training

40 Joey Rolland Mechanical Engineer Division of Materials Safety, Security, State, and Tribal Programs (MSST)

Comprehensive revision to cer tain materials license reviewer and inspector qualification guidance facilitated by a diverse team representing the NRC regions and the S cope 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
  • 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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44 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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45 Backup Pictures 47 Acronyms

  • AAPM - American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • D R Ps - Discrete Radiological Particles
  • DLLW-Decommissioning and Low-L e v e l Wa s t e
  • DOE -Department of Energy
  • ET - Evapotranspiration
  • FTE - Full Time Equivalent
  • HDR - High Dose Rate
  • IMPEP - Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation Program
  • ISG - Interim Staff Guidance
  • LT P-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
  • RC Ps - 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

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