Press Release-01-011, NRC Schedules Workshop on Fuel Facility Oversight
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| Issue date: | 02/01/2001 |
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, DC 20555-001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA No.01-011 February 1, 2001 NRC SCHEDULES WORKSHOP ON FUEL FACILITY OVERSIGHT The NRC has scheduled a workshop on February 8 in Rockville, Maryland, to obtain suggestions from the public on improving the agencys oversight program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities.
This workshop is one of several to be held to factor public and other stakeholder comments into a revised fuel facility oversight program. These facilities process and fabricate uranium ore into nuclear reactor fuel.
This meeting will focus on the work plan and the schedule of activities and milestones to revise the oversight program. A draft project work plan has been posted on the NRC website at http://techconf.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/topics.
The goals of the oversight program are to:
ÿ Focus attention on activities where potential risks are greatest,
ÿ Obtain more objective indicators of risk-related performance,
ÿ Increase public confidence in the NRCs oversight program, and
ÿ Increase regulatory effectiveness, efficiency, and realism.
This initiative will employ lessons learned from the recently revised commercial nuclear reactor oversight program.
The workshop, which is open to the public, will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in Room O-16B4 of the agencys headquarters at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike. Visitor parking is limited; however, the building can be easily reached via the Red Line Metro to the White Flint station.
Those who seek background information on this initiative may obtain transcripts and presentations from past meetings at www.nrc.gov/NMSS/FCSS/FCOB/INSP/REVISED/fcindex.htm on NRCs website.