ML20141E044

Requests Reply Re Whether INPO Supports Data Exchange & Whether NRC Authorized to Share Proprietary NPRDS Data in common-cause Failure (CCF) Database W/Participating Icde Countries

ML20141E044
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Issue date:	05/16/1997
From:	Ross D NRC OFFICE FOR ANALYSIS & EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL DATA (AEOD)
To:	Hastie W INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONS
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NUDOCS 9705200289
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1 Mr. William J. Hastie, Director Division of Government Relations Institute of Nuclear Power Operations 700 Galleria Parkway Atlanta, GA 30339-5957

Dear Mr. Hastie:

As you are aware, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has developed a common-cause failure (CCF) database that contains CCF events from Licensee Event Reports (LERs) and Nuclear Plant Reliability Database System (NPRDS) data records. INPO previously agreed to i allow the NRC to distribute copies of this database, including proprietary NPRDS data, to U.S.

utilities who are members of INPO. We are planning to begin distribution in June 1997.

NRC is also engaged in an international effort to collect CCF data from foreign countries. This effod is called the International Common-Cause Data Exchange (ICDE) Project. The main countries involved in the project are Sweden, Finland. Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The initial ICDE Project efforts that lay the basic ground work for this venture have been in progress for over 2-years. The NRC requests INPO permission to share data from our CCF database, including proprietary NPRDS data, with ICDE members subject to Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), a part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (CECD), controls noted below and also INPO restrictions. The main objective of NEA is to promate cooperation among the governments of its participating countries in furtheri.1g the development of nuclear power as a safe, environmentally acceptable, and economic energy To rce.

On September 10,1996, the ICDE Project approached the NEA about sponsoring the project.

The reasons for ti is are that several countries (1) war,ted to have a recognized organization be the sponsor of the work, and (2) are concerned about the proprietary nature of their data, which NEA can protect via their governing nondisclosure agreements. Enclosed is a copy of the proposal presented to the NEA in Paris, France, at a September 1996 NEA meeting. This was approved at the December 1996 meeting for a 2-year period. The ICDE Project will be sponsored by Principal Working Group 1 of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), part of NEA.

One example of an NEA project involving proprietary data, with which INPO is familiar, is the Incident Reporting System (IRS). These reports document events that have occurred in gg nuclear power plants around the world and are judged noteworthy by the submitting country.

The purpose is to exchange information about events that occur and the actions taken to mitigate them so that other nuclear power plant operators can learn from these experiences.

The NRC shares this information with INPO under the NEA proprietary data restrictions. IRS reports are treated and labeled by NEA as " restricted."

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William J. Hastis 4 Another protected data category used by NEA is " confidential." This is more stringent than the

• " restricted" category, and it will be used for the common-cause failure data. In addition, the ICDE Project group has specified in its charter that the only way other countries can obtain any of the data is to participate in the project group and participate in the data exchange.

Current plans call for beginning the data exchange in June 1997. The NRC requests

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permission to share the NPRDS data in the CCF database with foreign countries and '

I governments who actively participate in the ICDE Project and share data with us. The NEA  ;

proprietary data restrictions will govern how other countries will handle the data. In turn, the  !

1 NRC will share the data we receive from foreign countries with INPO under the same restrictions. I i

Please inform us whether INPO supports such a data exchange and whether NRC is authorized 3 to share proprietary NPRDS data in the CCF database with the participating ICDE countries

under the auspices of the NEA.

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If you have any questions regarding this effort, please contact Mr. Patrick Baranowsky on (301) {'

j 415-7493. We are looking forward to your respo'se.

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Denwood F. Ross, Jr., Director 1 Office for Analysis and Evaluation

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P Project Programme for a LSNI/PWG x Task Force on International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) 1 INTRODUCTION Common-cause-failure tCCFi esents can significantly impact the availaH!ity of arct) sy stem > of nuclear power plants.. In u.sgmtion of this. CCF data are systematically being collected and analysed in ses eral countries. e g in Germany. France. Sweden and i the t'nited States A serious obstacle to t: e use of nationa: qualitatise and quantitatise data collections by other countries is that the criteria and interpreutions .ipplied in the collection and analy sis of esents and data differ among the s arious countnes A further impediment is that descriptions of reported esents and their root causes. which are important to the assessnunt of the esents. are usually written in the natise language of the countries u here the es ents were obsen ed ,

i in a workshop held at SKI. Stockholm on August 26.1994. the boundary conditions to be obeyed. the available data bases and the ca-ordination required to initiate and carry out a multinational eschange of CCF data were discussed L

The First ICDE niceting was held April 20/21 1995 at the same location and was hosted by SKI. At this meeting. problems related to the initialise of the ICDE project were l discussed in more detail.

l The Second ICDE meeting was held at CEA Headquarters. Paris. on Nosember X/9 1995 and u as hosted by IPSN. At this meeting.. the data exchange format uas further

, descloped. incorporating the experience with a first test case. and further co-operation issues were discussed The third ICDE meeting was held in Cologne on June 19/20 1996 and was hosted by GRS At this meeting the draft for an operational agreement was discussed and the format and guidelines for esent record exchange were re-esaluated, based on the experience with 23 test records supplied by 5 countries and independently coded by 6 participating organisations l

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ICDE Internanonal Con: mon-( use-Failure Data F uhaner Projett Communkaitun by: Gunnar Johanson. Wolfgang Werner Date I W6 09-06 2 OltlECTIVE The oblectn e with the ICDE actnits is to proside a framework for a muhinational co-operation to generate qualit.nn e msights on root c.1uses of CCF es cots that can be used to deris e prot isions for pres enting CCF es ents or for nutigating their con. sequences.

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to enablish an interNuonal Working group on a long teTm badiS which will collect and ana!> se CCF es ents e

to generate the framework tbr ellicient esperience Ikedback on CCF phenomena and on defence agamst CCF The task fo,ce shall operate with clear separauon of the collection and analy sis actiuues In the lifst stage of the project emphasis will be on the collection actisities The data collecuen and quahtatise anah sis can result in qualitatise CCF data that can be used for l the assessment of the efficiency of delbncesagainst CCF esents and of CCF esents in the  !

PSA framework The qualitatn e insights on CCF esents generated by the task force wili l

be made as ailable 3b esternal reporting of the working group in the long term. a broad basis for quantification of CCFs could be established. if the participating organisations wish to do so The chosen standardisation should be utihsed in the future collection of CCF es ents in the countries participating in the eschange 3 SCOPE It is intended to include in ICDE the key components of the main safety sy stems A list of systems and components ty pes will be deseloped at a later time Detemiination of the scope of the ICDE actisities in terms of component tspes to be cos cred within a certain time frame will be the decision of the working group Backfitting of old data is not the pnme objectise. but can be done Data older than 1980 uill not be used The incorporation of new data will be performed as a natural part of the ICDE actiuty

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i ICDE Internauonal Common Cause-Failure Data Euhant:e Projett Communhahon by: Gunnar Johanson. Wolfgang Werner Date lo% oo mi 4 OPERATIONAL AGREE.\ LENT The data exchanye must be responsibly carned out through the regulators in the participating c( curies. with the po;sibility of delegating to other organisations It is assumed that the data will be used by the regulators in the context of assessment of PRA PSA results and of transforming of such results into regulatory actions The operational agreements suggest an initial two years commitment to participate in the task force. Thereafter. the project status will be critically es aluated and decisions on how to further proceed will be made it is expected that the project can then be turned oser to CSNI for routine implementation This woulJ require a long term commitment in order to make it beneficial 4.1 G ENERAL PROJEC l' CO.\l.\ll f.\lENTS Ehis agreement will contain the statement of Icng term commitment to participate in the ICDE project The panicipatmg erganisations will base to commit themsels es to a long term  ;

participation la penod ofinitially .' yearsiin the ICDE project The only possibility to get access to the working material is to actisely take actise part in the data exchange Each Party will endeasour to establish co-operation within their own countries between j organisations concerned with matters related to the Project and being capable or l contributing significantly to accomplish the objectises of the Project. Each Party uill l assume responsibility of co-ordinating all Dr,iect activities performed in its own country l Oserall co-ordination of the ICDE Proicct is to be provided by OECD'NEA Principal Working Group 1 or 5 The OECD ^NEA will appoint a project manager The project will be run by the members of the ICDE team "ith assista..:- by the NEA project manager.

4.2 NATIONAL OPERATIONAL AGREESIENTS:

In most countries the data exchange will( e carried out through the regulators. with the possibility to delegate to other organisations. This process may differ among the various countries This necessitate the fomiulatica of national agreements which explain the particular situation and the relationship between participating organisations Each I

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International Comnmn Cause-Fatture Data f uh.inee Project Communication ,

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and the relationslup betw een panicipating orgamsanons w ithin their countn Furthermore. statements concerning the follouing items shall be presented Statement on es entual lunitation . of the as anabihty of data to ICDE I 1

e Statement on es entual restrictions on the use of national data w ithin or outside ICDE l

• 1 Statement on National policy on the handling of proprietary information  :

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't he Parties will undertake to make asailable any infonnation reasonably required for the purposes of the Project. all in English l

The proprietan issues embodied in the es ent repons that fonn the basis for ICDE will be protected by treating the esent repons as working material within the gronp The onl 3 possibility to get access to the working matenal is to actis ely take pan in the data eschange The proprietary rules already defined 3b the OECD!NEA will apply Project reports and results that hase been approsed by OECD%EA would be distributed without restnctions Howeser. this does not appl 3 to data with national or other organisational proprietan restrictions or to working socuments which are treated as propri2 tan information within the working group Any background matenal that a project pam u ants to keep as proprietars shall be m ot. on es er il 3nall be n.am. a ana. ur res iew purposes fi>r IGt. ..oject parties. but not to third parties The working language for the communication betueen the parties is English 4.3 PROJECT DOCl31ENTATION The project reporting nill be organised to allow for electronic distribution The documentation will be dis ided in three parts

l. Project organisatiort a set of reports describing and defining the project The reports

! will be deseloped and resised during the project set up The will consist of l Descriptions. Format. Agreements. Definitions. Directon. Guides. Codes. Proceduie.

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2 Project data an electronic bookshelf for storing the u orking material.

3. Project information. the estemal reporting on the project The working group will present qualitatise insights on CCF esents in its estemal reporting This reporting could be organised in the form of papers contributed to suitable internationa!

conferences and journals The intention is to make the preject sisible by producing apprcpriate public presentations A procedure for submittal and appros al will be established An interim progress report will be produced by December 1997. and a final report by December 1998 1

4.4 CLEARING llOl'SF A clearing house will be established as a node in the infonnation flow for the central l storage of the esent reports. receiung contnbutions and distributing the ICDE documents and records. A protocol for transmittal of information shall be agreed The arrangements for use and management of the information in the indisidual countries is up to the participating organisauons but shall be specified The Swedish Nuclear inspectorate, SKI. has offered to host and operate a clearing house for the project 4.5 Fl!NDING The project will be based on national funding accordirm to the operational agreements.

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The Parties will assume responsibility in coninbuting ciliciently and with high quality to creating basic knowledge and skills to be used for assessment of CCF's Parties u ould not be responsible for any damage caused oy this project agreement.

l 47 TEIOllNATION The operational agreement Ibr the working group will remain in force until December 1998. subject to prior tennination or prolongation to be expressly agreed in writing between the Parties i

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. . - . . - .The project status will be entically es aluated and deci< ions on how to further proceed will be made at the date stated abose it is e\pected that the ICDE process will require a long term commitment to make it beneficial The Parties has e declared their tirn. miention to carry the Project to successful completion before termination Hon es er, u Party mas withdraw from the Project and all a"ociated obligauons. by uniten notice to the other Parties three months in ads ance.

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