ML21167A142

1 - LIC-206 - Adopting Risk-Informed Decision-Making in NRC Licensing Review Culture

ML21167A142
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Issue date:	06/21/2021
From:	Ian Tseng NRC/NRR/DEX
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Vasavada S
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Adopting Risk-informed Decision-making in NRC Licensing Review Culture NRR Office Instruction LIC-206 Ian Tseng PWROG Future Risk-Informed Initiatives Workshop June 21, 2021 1

The Goal

• To improve the handling and efficiency of NRC review.

The Method

• Increasing adoption of risk-informed decision-making across the NRCs technical staff

• LIC-206 builds off existing NRC framework and long-standing philosophies 2

The Challenges Solutions

• Reviewers sometimes siloed in separate technical specialties Proactive process to engage relevant technical specialties and promote collaboration as early as possible in a review

• Risk language is diversely presented and dispositioned Provide a common understanding of risk terminology to promote effective collaboration and more reliable conceptual handling by the NRC

• Setting appropriate precedent for first-of-a-kind reviews A consistent intellectual framework for reviewing and documenting risk-informed approaches.

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The Challenges Solutions

• Reviewers sometimes siloed in separate technical specialties Proactive process to engage relevant technical specialties and promote collaboration as early as possible in a review

• Risk language is diversely presented and dispositioned Provide a common understanding of risk terminology to promote effective collaboration and more reliable conceptual handling by the NRC

• Setting appropriate precedent for first-of-a-kind reviews A consistent intellectual framework for reviewing and documenting risk-informed approaches 4

The Challenges Solutions

• Reviewers sometimes siloed in separate technical specialties Proactive process to engage relevant technical specialties and promote collaboration as early as possible in a review

• Risk language is diversely presented and dispositioned Provide a common understanding of risk terminology to promote effective collaboration and more reliable conceptual handling by the NRC

• Setting appropriate precedent for first-of-a-kind reviews A consistent intellectual framework for reviewing and documenting risk-informed approaches 5

The Challenges Solutions

• Reviewers sometimes siloed in separate technical specialties Proactive process to engage relevant technical specialties and promote collaboration as early as possible in a review

• Risk language is diversely presented and dispositioned Provide a common understanding of risk terminology to promote effective collaboration and more reliable conceptual handling by the NRC

• Setting appropriate precedent for first-of-a-kind reviews A consistent intellectual framework for reviewing and documenting risk-informed approaches 6

The Challenges Solutions

• Reviewers sometimes siloed in separate technical specialties Proactive process to engage relevant technical specialties and promote collaboration as early as possible in a review

• Risk language is diversely presented and dispositioned Provide a common understanding of risk terminology to promote effective collaboration and more reliable conceptual handling by the NRC

• Setting appropriate precedent for first-of-a-kind reviews A consistent intellectual framework for reviewing and documenting risk-informed approaches 7

Implementation

• LIC-206 is not a paperwork exercise. The NRC has stood up an active and motivated team to work to acculturate the NRC to the LIC-206 approach and contents.

• Training - Person to person contact to bring the concepts to life and help staff link them to their existing expertise.

• Observation - Real time feedback from within the process to inform training and implementation.

• Metrics - Building the foundation for tracking and monitoring on-going health for long-lasting effect.

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Takeaways

• NRR has a new office instruction to promote the practices and culture change needed for expanded use of risk-information in reviews.

• The method builds on existing regulatory framework and methods.

• Implementation is underway.

• We will share more details when they firm up.

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