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NRC Solicits Public Comments on Spent Fuel TransportationPackage Performance Study Test Protocols



Colleagues -
 
Some of you might be interested in the following Federal Register Notice. The full draft NUREG document is available on the NRC website.
 
Jim Hardeman
Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us
 
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[Federal Register: February 21, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 35)] [Notices][Page 8530-8533]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Solicitation of Public Comments on Spent Fuel Transportation
Package Performance Study Test Protocols

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Opening of comment period and public meeting announcement.

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SUMMARY: This Federal Register notice announces the availability, for
public comment, of the Test Protocols Report (draft NUREG-1768) for the
NRC's spent nuclear fuel transportation Package Performance Study
(PPS). The PPS is a confirmatory research program focused on the
probabilities and consequences of severe transportation accidents--the
very small fraction of accidents that could result in impact or thermal
forces, on casks, that exceed NRC's standards for cask design. The PPS
will use a combination of testing and analyses to develop data and
validate methods of analysis for use in transportation risk
assessments. A public participation process will continue as PPS
proceeds, to ensure that stakeholder concerns are considered by the PPS
and to support increased public confidence in NRC's regulatory
activities, considering potential future increases in the number of
spent fuel transports.
    The test protocols report describes, at a conceptual level, full-
scale spent fuel cask impact and fire physical testing that NRC may
sponsor over the next couple of years. The ``Executive Summary'' of the
test protocols report is included in this notice, and full copies of
the report are available for comment at NRC's Web site at http://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff
or may be obtained from the contact.

DATES: Written comments will be accepted until May 30, 2003.

SEE Federal Register at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/pdf/03-4106.pdf